As long as Jesus findeth not His image reformed in thee, He is strange, and the farther from thee; therefore frame and shape thyself to be arrayed in His likeness, that is in humility and charity, which are His liveries, and then will He know thee, and familiarly come to thee, and acquaint thee with His secrets. Thus saith He to His disciples: Whoso loveth Me, he shall be loved of My Father, and I will manifest Myself unto him. (John Climacus)

It is active love of God, humility before God and neighbor, and practical love of neighbor that transforms noise into song.

Such love will, no doubt, edge out much of what clutters our lives and distracts us from God. In opening ourselves to Jesus we will shed much of the dusty, tarnished, tattered, stinking stuff we have accumulated.

But begin with love, and love some more, and more again. Loving and opening ourselves to be loved will reform us more truly and fully than any self-centered spring cleaning.