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Something to Ponder ...
A simile that often appears in Franz Wright’s book of poetry, God’s Silence, has really intrigued me.
In a number of poems he uses the phrase;
I have heard God’s silence like the sun.
So I sat in the sun and listened to the sun’s silence. The silence is total. What struck me was how I felt warmed and enveloped by something that was so remote. Its silence felt so intimate and personal. I sensed the whole world around me enveloped in the silent, intimate presence of the sun. It is there nourishing and enlivening whether I am aware of it or not.
All similes and metaphors have their limits, but this thought has helped me be with God in the silence, in meditating. God, so silent, yet nourishing and enlivening. So remote, yet intimate and enveloping.
As you sit or walk or rest or work with God this week, may you, too, take a moment to ‘hear God’s silence like the sun’.
Photo by jwvein from Pixabay
In a number of poems he uses the phrase;
I have heard God’s silence like the sun.
So I sat in the sun and listened to the sun’s silence. The silence is total. What struck me was how I felt warmed and enveloped by something that was so remote. Its silence felt so intimate and personal. I sensed the whole world around me enveloped in the silent, intimate presence of the sun. It is there nourishing and enlivening whether I am aware of it or not.
All similes and metaphors have their limits, but this thought has helped me be with God in the silence, in meditating. God, so silent, yet nourishing and enlivening. So remote, yet intimate and enveloping.
As you sit or walk or rest or work with God this week, may you, too, take a moment to ‘hear God’s silence like the sun’.
Photo by jwvein from Pixabay
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