Whose Voice?
"He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice. They will not follow a stranger, but they will run from him because they do not know the voice of strangers." —John 10:3b-5 There are those people who call us — our parents, spouse, children, friends — whose voices we instantly recognize. I answered the phone this past week and heard a familiar "hey friend," on the other end. It was the voice of one of my best friends. I recognized her voice, because I have heard that voice countless times over the last 13 years. That phone conversation started me thinking about the voices we recognize, and are comfortable with. There are those voices, like the voice of my friend, that you may go months without hearing, but are somehow able to instantly reconnect. There are the voices, like the voice of my parents, that you hear a couple of times a week. Then there are