It's true what they say. Silence is deafing. Sometimes, silence is wonderful. For me the past few days, silence has been painfully quiet.
A Flocking Good Time
One of my favorite pictures from the first fundraiser I did with my youth: a flamingo up close
I commented on FB about this, too. Silence is one of the hardest parts of Quaker worship and is ultimately what drives people away.
ReplyDeleteSometimes, it's what we hear in the silence that's scarypants. And sometimes, it's what we don't hear.
But I do understand, fully and completely, how complex the relationship with silence is.