In Silence Renewed

At times the world is too much with us. Its busyness and noise overwhelm us. The static of the world echoes in our mind disrupting any possibility of inner peace. When this happens, as it does all too often, we are urged to seek renewal in silence. Take a moment or several moments and simply stop striving, stop doing, stop thinking. Attend instead to the rhythm of your breathing or the beating of your heart as you seek to slow down. It takes an act of will to find your center-point, to become still, to allow yourself to rest in the silence. In this silence is renewal. This is one of the gifts of prayer, of meditation, this beautiful silence. By itself, silence does not bring renewal, but it creates the conditions out of which renewal emerges. In silence, we can lower our defenses against the world and direct that energy to the process of renewal. In silence, we can rediscover our essence. In silence, we can enter into prayer or meditation and go deeper as we contemplate matters of consequence in place of the trivia of the world. In silence, we replace human doing with human being. In silence, renewed.