Today is a quiet day after an anything-but-quiet week. It feels like such a relief to keep my mouth shut. Not wanting to alter the holy words, yet it feels like a holy prayer today to pray: O Lord, close my lips so my heart and imagination and everything within me might repair in consideration of your praise. I’ve said a million words about you to others. Today I am satisfied with one word from you for me.
Let us follow the prophet’s counsel: “I have said, I have resolved to keep watch over my ways that I may never sin with my tongue…” (Psalm 39). Here the prophet indicates that there are times when good words are to be left unsaid out of esteem for silence. (RB: 6).
Sister Joan writes, “Make no doubt about it, the ability to listen to another, to sit silently in the presence of God, to give sober heed, and to ponder is the nucleus of Benedictine spirituality. It may, in fact, be what is most missing in a new century saturated with information but short on gospel reflection.”
Nathan, I took your name in vain during Sunday's sermon 😊. So blessed by your teaching at ARC. Even put your picture on a slide.... Sometimes we don't get anywhere in life because we have forgotten how to leave. https://youtu.be/_yyc8VHXVkc John 3:1-10
I love this, it speaks volumes if we only listen.