Silence.
Now is as good a time as ever to make that first post. And as we’re busy trying to spread the word about EXIST, this thought has special meaning:
There’s something to be said about silence.
In a world so caught up in what’s next and what’s around the corner; on the go coffee and on the go calls; in an age where juggling the chaos of school and work and church and everything else, silence only comes for those wee hours between 2am and 8am. If you’re lucky.
We are constantly going and doing.
Silence is golden.
The past two Disney//Pixar masterpieces have had extensively long periods without dialogue. Without chaos. And it’s beautiful. These are movies marketed specifically for hyperactive kids born into a culture of chaos. And they love it. They eat it up.
The Psalmist wrote, “Be still and know that I am God.” This is a powerful verse. Because in all its simplicity it is, or rather we make it to be, such a complex command.
There is something spiritual about the stillness of silence. It is humbling in all its gloriousness. It is frightening yet comforting.
The theologian Soren Kierkegaard wrote in his magnum opus, Fear and Trembling that, “Silence is divinity’s communion with the individual.”
Commune with the Divine.
Dwell in His magnificent presence.
Worship in silence.
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