Monday, March 16, 2015
Silence
I've begun reading a book about the spiritual disciplines of solitude and silence. An excerpt-- "I believe silence is the most challenging, the most needed and the least experienced spiritual discipline among evangelical Christians today. It is much easier to talk about it and read about it than to actually become quiet." In the past, maybe 15 years ago, I was able to spend some time praying and reading Scripture early each morning after Sarah went to school. But then that schedule changed and I got out of the habit, and I have felt dry or even, as one song puts it, calloused to God's voice. In these hours I have for myself while e sleeps, I desire to read this book and practice the very specific steps Ruth Barton suggests.
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I'm reading a book that has a lot about the opposite of silence! Carry on Warrior is written by Glennon Doyle Melton who is the mother of 3 young children with plenty of chaos in her life - many funny stories. An essay I read a few days ago, not one of the funny ones, talked about confidence and humility being 2 sides of the same coin. We can feel confident, she writes, because we are well loved children of God. We need to feel humble because everyone else is an equally loved child of God. We are each "infinity important". I liked these images.
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