The basic condition for us to be able
to hear the call of beauty and respond to it, ...
is Silence.
If we don't have Silence in ourselves, if our mind, body,
are full of noise
then we can't hear beauty's call. "
Thich
Nhat Hanh
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the noise is deafening
chaotic
troubling
painful
so many words roaring out of our televisions
so many images flashing across our computer screens
so many YouTube videos
Facebook posts
And so so many “comments”
it is a toxic cacophony
that sucks our souls dry
and yet, it seems we (maybe it’s just me) cannot turn
away
we get lost in this noise
our brains become altered
our hearts harden
and our souls shrink
and we become people we barely know
and the spiritual junk food we consume creates a lot of
foul crap
that oozes from our souls
there is an antidote
silence
moments when we stop, breathe, listen
stop, breathe, seek
stop, breathe, connect
with the Sacred Presence within
it never hurts to listen to the heart
and to the still small voice
the divine voice
and when sit in the silence
or walk in silence
and notice, the beauty
the sun rising over the mountains,
the breeze caressing our face
the beat of our heart
the air, coming in, going out
when we take the time to connect to all of that
we not only connect to the Sacred
we become connected to ourselves
this is one of the gifts of these times
when we have been forced to slow down
spent more time sheltered
we have a chance to use this time to move toward deeper
things
and perhaps
just perhaps, as we do that
we will learn to choose wisely
to sort through the noise, and find the truth
and live accordingly
perhaps in the sheltering silence we will learn to
“no longer be children, tossed to and fro and blown about
by every wind of doctrine, by people’s trickery, by their
craftiness in deceitful scheming…
but speaking the truth in love, grow up in every way into
Jesus” (Ephesians 4)
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