I am getting a new appreciation for the action of silence...in looking back, I am all but humbled by the positive results I've received from simply keeping my mouth shut. Which, cleaned up, is the action of not responding in kind.
A word here for the value of journaling, of notes made in my "God Calling," etc. For sure, I would have forgotten most if not all the little seeming non-actions if not for my written reminders. All we can see at the time is the action, or silence, we took...it is the results that we see way later that are the proof of the power of silence.
A seed from silence aborning: Just this morning as I brushed my teeth, it flashed through me that I am the source of my nemesis. As I finished brushing, I recalled when I realized that I am the source of all my woes...and more importantly that flash invariably proves true, so I didn't resist over much that, who's kidding whom, my nemesis lives in me.
It is following that thought...to prove or disprove...that will earn my Lord his keep. He's never not been up to the job, so I'm looking forward to seeing what, which and where my looking back and longing for the freedom of my chains will lead me.
My experience with keeping my silence is that it is very easy to say nothing, it is next-door to impossible to silence my thoughts...and here comes a BFO: We cannot silence our thoughts, we give them to God in exchange for his thoughts. Oh, God, you are so good to me.
Thank you.
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