.shhhhh.

Silence.

it's a scary concept, being alone and being quiet. today's culture tells us that we need to be on the go, need to be productive, need to interact with people.

but i think we've all forgotten the value of silence. how often do we read of jesus going off by himself to pray, and yet we dismiss this silence, this meditation, this solitude as unnecessary, impossible, or mystical.

whatever our excuse, it just doesn't happen anymore. but it has so much more value than i think most of us today realize.

some quotes from things that i've been reading recently (for class nonetheless):

"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."
-Danny Saunders, in Chaim Potok's The Chosen

"Silence is the room we create for the searching of God, where we hear his voice and follow." -Mark Buchanan, Your God Is Too Safe

"Only when we have learned to be truly silent are you enabled to speak the word that is needed when it is needed."
-Richard Foster, Celebration of Discipline

all three of these books have so much more to offer and i would encourage you all to read them, you know, in your free time ;)

but honestly. when was the last time you were totally, completely.....silent.

so........shhhhhhhhhhhhh......