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If you found out you were dying would you be nicer? Love more? Try something new?

Well you are.

We all are.

Like the deer that yearns for running streams, so my soul is yearning for you, my God: my soul is thirsting for God, the living God.

Ps 42: 2-3

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It’s very hard to keep quiet when people lie and manipulate and put on a show for the world at your expense. But the Bible says…

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When you jump to defend yourself or try to clear things up you don’t leave room for God to be God.

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Ode to Broom Tree

The LORD is in his holy temple; the LORD’S throne is in heaven. His eyes behold, his searching glance is on mankind. The just will gaze on your face, O Lord.

Psalm 11: 4, 7

Silence gives the space to hear God speak, whether through words we hear within or through a movement of love or an answer to a question.

Silence itself also speaks.

St. Paul writes of the Spirit, who “intercedes with sighs too deep for words” (Romans 8:26). In silence, we can hear our own sighs for God and know that the silence of God is part of God’s also sighing for us—and for all creation.

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