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Silence

2/27/2017

 
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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!


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