A youth minister at Christ the Redeemer Church in Lake Orion reminded teens in a recent weekly bulletin that Christians who are “tuned in” will find God’s word during noisy times.

Lisa Andridge, in a reflection entitled “What are you tuned in to,” likened God’s getting people's attention by allowing challenging times such as the COVID-19 pandemic to a story she found in the Bible that her now 31-year-old son used during high school. 

The story chronicled the walk of an experienced hiker and a friend down busy streets in Manhattan in New York City. The hiker insisted to his skeptical friend that he heard a cricket among the noise and asked, “What are you tuned in to?”

To prove his point, the hiker dropped a dime on the ground. Nearly everyone who was nearby stopped at the dime’s sound hitting the concrete, and again he asked, “What are you tuned in to?”

“All of us are tuned in to certain things,” the hiker said to his friend. “Our ears hear what they are tuned to. Mine happen to be tuned to crickets.”

“The season we’re living in has been very challenging, tiresome and fraught with disappointments, fear and change,” Andridge wrote in the bulletin. “We’re learning to see the whole world differently and I think in this time God is encouraging us to slow down and focus more on Him.”