Silence
In the book The Power of Silence, Robert Cardinal Sarah borrows from Isaac The Syrian…
‘Love silence above all things because it brings you near to the fruit that the tongue cannot express.’
A friend told me fifteen years ago that he only checks for phone messages at noon and at 6:00 p.m..
These days, the average adult checks his/her phone 186 times per day.
Juniors in high school receive 237 notifications a day, check their phones 68 times during the school day, and average 8-9 hours of screen time a day.
“Silence is difficult but it allows people to be led by the hand of God. It is important to create the interior room where people find God in a face to face encounter.
Modern civilization does not know to be quiet.
Post modernity is an ongoing assault and aggression the divine silence. From morning to evening, from evening to morning, silence no longer has any place at all; noise tries to prevent God Himself from speaking.
Noise is itself a false, addictive, and false tranquilizer.
The tragedy of our world is never better summed up than in the fury of the senseless noise that stubbornly hates silence.
This age detests the things silence brings us to: encounter, wonder, and kneeling before God.”
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