The Lenten season is here! This year for Lent, I’m welcoming more silence (and giving up chocolate almonds - yes, that’s a sacrifice). I recently wrote this poem about silence and offer it to you as encouragement for why we sometimes avoid the quiet in and around our lives. How do you meet silence? Silence: A Poem
by Whitney R. Simpson She is my companion yet I avoid her gaze She is my teacher yet I push back at her instruction She is my guide yet I veer from her course She is my friend yet I wonder why she comes near She is my gift and I long to savor her more fully She is inviting me to a oneness with God, listen...do you hear her? Why not? I avoid her gaze because at first she looks lonely I push back at her instruction because of my own agenda I veer from her course because I am easily distracted I wonder why she comes near because there is always another choice Yet I long to savor her like never before And once I say yes to her I receive an awareness I never knew she could introduce to me She is my companion, my teacher, my guide, my friend She is God's gift Silence
Jen Mulford
3/1/2017 05:48:23 am
Thank you for that reminder this morning. That's beautiful.
Kasey Hitt
3/1/2017 07:01:36 am
Beautiful poem and so very true!!
Linda McClanahan
3/1/2017 08:18:44 am
Beautiful truth.
Linda McClanahan
3/1/2017 08:21:30 am
Beautiful truth
Stephanie Ofenheusle
3/2/2017 06:42:09 am
Well written. And a good reminder as we start Lent! Comments are closed.
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