Growing up in the desert there is a stillness that exists in nature I have found not too many other places. There is something about the quiet nature of those early moments of dawn as though it is the breath right before the sun begins to sing its glorious song of awakening. The quiet is also the space in which I have had to face some more unsettling parts of my being. Yet the call to quiet can feel like a gentle whisper from God to step just a little closer. Not getting input from outside of myself allows me the chance to tune in to what is going on inside of me. I presume this is the reason many spiritual traditions have contemplative prayer practices or silent retreats. The misguided conception is that one immediately finds a space of peace along with the quiet. My experience has shown me I will first awaken to how loud it is inside my head before I can reach the quiet of my heart. Sometimes it is my body that seems to be screaming for my attention. Either way the willingness to be in the quiet is the portal to peace. If I continually ingest noise and sound there is no breathing space for the disquieted elements within me to make it to the surface. Peace comes from sitting in the inner noise that arises upon the outside quiet long enough to be reunited with the quiet knowledge of the truth of our hearts. In the season of spring about to be reborn, there is a quiet just like right before the dawn. Perhaps this is a good time to take God up on the invitation to reconnect with the quiet within existing deeper than the noise within which we resist by filing our outside with sound.
Be From Quiet!
on March 4, 2017My prayer for us is the courage to get quiet and face the sound within ourselves that longs to be heard and reunite us with the quiet of our hearts today.
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