When in awe
be silent
be still
know
God
is
God
My dear friends…are you waiting for God?
Maybe God is waiting for you…to be silent; to listen in the silence; to know
God. This is to know awe-filled peace. This is Advent.
“The way this world
works, people are very apt to use the words they speak not so much as a way of
revealing but, rather, as a way of concealing who they really are and what they
really think, and that is why more than a few moments of silence with people we
do not know well are apt to make us so tense and uneasy…. we start babbling
about anything just to keep the silence at bay. But if we can bear to let it
be, silence, of course, can be communion at a very deep level indeed…”
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Originally published in The Hungering Dark, Frederick Buechner
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