Silence ~

We need to find God,

 and he cannot be found

 in noise and restlessness.

  God is the friend of silence.

  See how nature – trees, flowers, grass – grow in silence;

  see the stars, the moon and the sun,

 how they move in silence.

  We need silence to be able to touch souls.” 

Mother Teresa

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winter light and shadow

silent days

waiting

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Shadowed ~

"I beg you to keep me in this silence

 so that I may learn from it
the word of your peace
and the word of your mercy
and the word of your gentleness

 to the world: and that through me

 perhaps your word of peace

 may make itself heard
where it has not been possible

 for anyone to hear it for a long time."

Thomas Merton

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the woods are silent

in January's deepest cold

only the shadows

 foretell

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God is within her, she will not fall;

 God will help her at break of day.

from

 Psalm 46

  

 

The Fullness ~

“Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing
and rightdoing there is a field.
I'll meet you there

When the soul lies down in that grass
the world is too full to talk about.”

Rumi

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An Art ~

But the LORD is in his holy temple:

 let all the earth keep silence before him.

Habakkuk 2:20

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joining the 

Sunday Community

January Hush ~

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"A hush is over everything,

Silent as women wait for love;

The world is waiting for the spring."

Sara Teasdale

“Stand still.

 The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost.”

 Albert Einstein

 "Now close the windows and hush all the fields:
If the trees must, let them silently toss."

Robert Frost 

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Smiling Softly ~

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"The beauty we love

is very silent

it smiles softly to itself

but never speaks."

Richard Le Gallienne

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For A Time ~

Silence

 is the folding of

 the wings of the intellect

 to open the door of the heart.

 Catherine de Hueck Doherty

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I will be a bit silent

for awhile as

I enjoy

 the 

company of

 a visiting friend

from the Pacific NW.

An Ordinary Blossom ~

Let us be silent that we may hear the whisper of God.

 Ralph Waldo Emerson

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hosta blossom

in the light of early

morning sun

 

 

There is Always ... ~

room

for growth

how lovely is the silence 

of growing things

author unknown

Whose Silence ~

 

but the Lord

is in

His holy temple

let all the earth

keep silence

before

Him

Habakkuk 2:20

: : :

"whose silence are you?"

Thomas Merton

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Quietly ~

God's first language

is

silence

everything else

is a

translation

Thomas Keating

In A Heartbeat ~

If we had a keen vision

of all that is ordinary

in human life,

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it would be like hearing the grass grow

or the squirrel's heartbeat,

and

we should die of that roar

which is the other side

of

silence.

George Eliot 

Silence ~

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