Noise

As I was doing the morning dog walk today and listening to Genesis I found that as cars went by I had to turn up the volume on my cassette player to hear the words--at times the words were simply drowned out by the volume of the cars. This set me to thinking: What is it that drowns out the very words of God in my life so that I don't hear them? Busyness? TV? Preoccupation with other things? Something to think on for all of us--just what is it that makes it so we stop hearing the very words of God? What is it that gets us listening again?