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Silence

When I was a child I used to fear the silence. One of the tortures I endured was being thrown into a small closet with no light, and being left there for days at a time. As a six-year-old, I was terrified of the silence because it represented that closet. Dark, lonely, cramped. All alone, after a…
The day Gerry and I moved to Neenah from Milwaukee was a long, exhausting one. Done in from moving boxes and furniture all day, we fell into bed. Something woke me in the middle of the night though—something odd. It was the absence of sound. We had moved from an urban neighborhood where buses, ca…
In a congregation I once served was a man who’d been there many years—not a noisy person, but one who was pretty loud in his dislike of silence in the Sunday service. “That’s not what we pay you for,” he told me when we introduced a time of meditation every week—the briefest eye-blink of silent me…
Silence is the tool that brings us back from fragmentation into wholeness. So many of us live lives of division, running from one thing to the next, waiting for moments just to sit down. When we do, it’s often in front of a screen or while waiting for whatever’s next, possibly someone who’s late w…
Three sanctuaries of silence come to mind as I think about creating more space for silence in my life. The first is a quiet lake I love up north in Wisconsin. Shoe Lake is about a twenty-minute walk from a little place we used to have in the Nicolet National Forest. There are only two human dwelli…
Sanggahan: Podcast dan karya seni yang disematkan pada halaman ini berasal dari Church of the Larger Fellowship, yang merupakan milik pemiliknya dan tidak berafiliasi atau didukung oleh Listen Notes, Inc.