On the Other side of Silence

Sometimes quiet can "feel" like a fire to my desire to always be in the know, or center of activity. Quiet does not answer my questions, it places me on hold.

Silence almost feels like the light was turned off, and it's time to go to bed.

But My Heavenly Father never sleeps or slumbers, and the One Who is always Active is seeking to show me how He sees...in my Quiet. 

In the silence I can learn better 

how to link up with His activity.

I do this by waiting in prayer.

I think that some of the greatest hindrances to learning how to view what is happening in invisible Heavenly Places...has much to do with how uncomfortable we are with silence and stillness.

Especially in an age, where so much noise and simulation is before our eyes, and is constantly at our finger tips.

Maybe part of "entering His REST" is simply letting His blanket of quiet come over us without becoming unsettled by the silence.

Learning to trust Him with the details we do not know and wait for His songs to come .... in the night.

Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence. ~Madeleine L'Engle

It is a glorious thing to get to know God in a new way in the inner chamber. It is something still greater and more glorious to know God as the all-sufficient One and to wait on His Spirit to open our hearts and minds wide to receive the great things, the new things which He really longs to bestow on those who wait for Him. ~Andrew Murray

Those who complain that they make no progress in the life of prayer because they "cannot meditate" should examine, not their capacity for meditation, but their capacity for suffering and love. For there is a hard and costly element, a deep seriousness, a crucial choice, in all genuine religion. ~Evelyn Underhill