It is common literary practice, especially among the theorists, to consider a voice a form of agency and thereby personhood. To be able to speak, to have the ability and the presence within a given space to vocalize internal thoughts is the pathway to existence.
This makes sense, because it is in giving up that ability, at least temporarily, that we come closest to our creator. God meets us in the silence, when we stop talking, when we escape the places where everyone and everything is doing all they can to assert their agency by voice and come to a place where there is nothing to be heard but the voice of God.
It is a call to silence and a call to refreshment, but it is largely a call to give up self as well, or at least any claims we might think we have to our own selves, to our own personhood, in contrast to the glory that is the maker and ruler of all. God does not forcibly take our own selves from ourselves, but he will willing receive and renew those who willingly take a step back, and even for a moment, allow for silence to hear his call. Dying to self has always been the key, and he has always been in the resurrection business.
-Zack
"the nearness of there feels more near to here"
-David Crowder
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