Silence
Why is it so hard to be in silence?
Have you ever asked a question and got no answer?
Sent an email or been on IM and got no response?
Left a message on voicemail and got no answer?
Said a prayer and only heard silence?
Have you ever asked a question and got no answer?
Sent an email or been on IM and got no response?
Left a message on voicemail and got no answer?
Said a prayer and only heard silence?
posted by Rochelle @ 8:01 AM
4 Comments:
At 11:30 AM,
Mike said…
I think it has a lot to do with our culture. We want quick fixes, fast answers, and no down time. we are uncomfortable with silence. Silence is not a bad thing though. It often is appropriate to meditate, contemplate, and ponder a situation before responding. Our lives are so fast paced that we seem to be disturbed when something takes time. Silence is not always a negative response, it is sometimes a precursor to a positive, well-thought-out response.
At 2:38 PM,
darker than silence said…
Silence is frightening because it strips us as nothing else does, throwing us upon the grim realities of our life. A great fear is that in this so-called quiet time, what happens if there seems to be very little of “just us and God”? What does it say about the inward emptiness of our lives if we must always turn on the tape player or radio or must always ‘feel’ or ‘experience’ God to make sure something is happening in our world?
Sound has an interesting trademark – it always strikes deep and brooding in our souls. So for the sake of our souls, we must seek times to leave our television, radio, tape players, and telephones turned off. We need to seek time to close off street noises as much as possible, try to find how quiet we can make our world by our own hands.
How few of us live with a quiet, inner peace. The world weighs down all around us, and we feel it choking us, suffocating us to the point of fatal exhaustion. When we wake in the morning, demands are shoved down our throat. We toss and turn at night, heads filled with knowledge that tomorrow’s harvest is no better; minds laden with the mistakes of the day, the problems and circumstances to be fixed and avoided. So little of us have this quiet, inner peace; peace is a foreign word with vague meaning. Yet we know we desire it. This peace, this comfort, this calmness is in our grasp; it can be touched; the grace of God sustains us, fills us with joy and peace, and the door is often silence.
At 2:38 PM,
darker than silence said…
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At 4:24 PM,
Anonymous said…
when i drive to work and back home i do not turn on the radio. It seems so quiet and peaceful
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