Posts Tagged ‘quest-magazine-2020-12|silence’

Silence is the tool that brings us back from fragmentation into wholeness.

In a congregation I once served was a man who’d been there many years—not a noisy person, but one who was pretty loud in his dislike of silence in the Sunday service.

Three sanctuaries of silence come to mind as I think about creating more space for silence in my life.

When I was a child I used to fear the silence. One of the tortures I endured was being thrown into a small closet with no light, and being left there for days at a time.

The day Gerry and I moved to Neenah from Milwaukee was a long, exhausting one.

Where I live, December marks the beginning of winter. And in the Hudson Valley of New York, those winters are often cold, silent, and dark.

During my first year living in Seattle, I heard a news report of a woman being arrested for throwing a frozen chicken out her apartment in the middle of a crowd of runners in a 5K race.

As we head into the depths of winter I am always reminded of that in other parts of the world, people are experiencing the height of summer.

Close to 20 years ago Rev. Jane Rzepka invited me to join the CLF team as the editor of Quest. 

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