dailydatewithgod

Being that yesterday was Good Friday I decided to approach it with quiet.  I took some extra meditation time in the middle of the day-stepping outside my office to embrace the warmth of the sun and listen to the sounds of nature (sometimes hard to hear over the sirens 😉  But most of what I did was made an effort to calmly accept everything as it came.  To not be roused by anything.  Not get irritated when my phone started acting up, smiling with patience when the woman in the grocery store parking lot was taking her time and there were five cars lined up behind me waiting to get through, breathe deeply when sitting in traffic and not playing the radio.  It is amazing what you can hear when you are quiet.  I noticed that everyone has a certain rhythm.  In fact, at one point it seemed as though all the pedestrians crossing the street seemed to be moving to a song that only they could hear.  What I didn’t expect from the quiet, though I have experienced it before, was the way everything was much more colorful.  I wasn’t busy filling in the narrative and somehow all around me people and things had their own voice. I did not do this perfectly, but I accepted that however I practiced this silence would be enough for the day.  I have benefited from taking times of silence (in addition to my set time each morning with God) because I get to hear things as they are not as I predispose them to be.  If I am busy talking to life and placing my own narrative on what is happening, I am not able to hear it speak its truth.  My prayer for you today is that you are able to spend some time in quiet.  Let yourself experience the initial discomfort of doing so and ride it out until you are enchanted by the things that you hear.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

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