More Than Words

Open the door. Go in and pray. Enjoy the silence!

It has been a long time since I have posted on this blog. And to be absolutely honest, I am not sure what I am going to post now.

I just finished reading the book "The Chosen" by Chaim Potok. An absolutely fascinating book. I would encourage everyone to read it.

I'll just share a passage from it to begin.

For a long moment, he said nothing. His eyes seemed glazed, turned inward. Then his face slowly relaxed. He smiled faintly. "There's more truth to that than you realize," he murmured. "You can listen to silence, Reuven. I've begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. It talks to me sometimes. I feel myself alive in it. It talks. And I can hear it."

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"You have to want to listen, and then you can hear it. It has a strange, beautiful texture. It doesn't always talk. Sometimes - sometimes it cries, and you can hear the pain of the world in it. It hurts to listen to it then. But you have to."

Listening to silence. Not to music. Not to teachings. Not to laughter. Not to.... Only listening to silence.

Don't we do that at times when we pray to the Lord of lords and King of kings? When we are deep in prayer, aren't we wanting to hear silence at times so that then we can hear the voice of our Saviour and Lord?

That old saying, "silence is golden" might just hold a fair bit of truth.

Have a great Lord-filled day everyone.