If there is anyone out there reading this (and I kind of hope there is), you may have wondered about my silence.
Sometimes God brings us in and out of strange places, and for a time life stands still. I’ve been silent, as my little heart and head wander through some forests. Don’t worry; even among the trees, I can always look up and see little pinholes of light (when I remember to look)! But I digress.
Today I read a blog post on silence – the silence we need and our hearts long for. So, from my time of silence, I’ll share it with you.
http://www.aholyexperience.com/2010/03/when-you-are-afraid-of-silence.html
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like like like that link.. fo sho 🙂
Wonderful reminder! 🙂
Beautiful music too…if only I could figure out who plays it.
Love it.
Have you read any Thomas Merton??
If not, he was a Trappist Monk who wrote a LOT about silence. Some of it is really incredible.
Here’s one of his silence poems (only one I could find online)
In Silence:
Be still.
Listen to the stones of the wall.
Be silent, they try
to speak your
name.
Listen
to the living walls.
Who are you?
Who
are you? Whose
silence are you?
Who (be quiet)
are you (as these stones
are quiet). Do not
think of what you are
still less of
what you may one day be.
Rather
be what you are (but who?)
be the unthinkable one
you do not know.
O be still, while
you are still alive,
and all things live around you
speaking (I do not hear)
to your own being,
speaking by the unknown
that is in you and in themselves.
“I will try, like them
to be my own silence:
and this is difficult. The whole
world is secretly on fire. The stones
burn, even the stones they burn me.
How can a man be still or
listen to all things burning?
How can he dare to sit with them
when all their silence is on fire?”
Thomas Merton
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