No writing on the solitary, meditative dimensions of life can say anything that has not already been said better by the wind in the pine trees…or the silence and peace that is “heard” when the rain wanders freely among the hills and forests. But what can the wind say where there is no hearer?

Thomas Merton, THOUGHTS ON SOLITUDE

So maybe our task is to be present and listen or what Merton refers to as the hearer.