Our daily time in silence is a resting, a stillness. We consent to emptiness in a world hastening to fill itself up, running from the emptiness. Christian contemplatives refer to Jesus' kenosis: the Scripture says, "He emptied himself." Each in-breath, out-breath, and space between is a waiting in open receptivity. We are not trying to achieve anything. We are not attempting to be anything. We are nothing and nobody. We are zero; yet, we discover we are. We set aside time for this wakeful, restful quietude, so open restfulness, with its trust in something more than ourselves, can permeate our lives. Resting in nothingness, we find it is a fullness; it is empty of thingness, full of no-thingness. It is our home. We are not, then, less alive, we are more alive. We are not less human, we are more human.
Psalm 37.7 - "Rest (be still, silent) in (before) the Beloved (the Lord), patiently wait for the Beloved (the Lord)...
Sometimes… Wisdom… She wants to do something in your life, in you, through you, for you and you need to take a step back rest and welcome what lies nascent in the soil, unseen
Why continue plowing the earth when a new something is already soon to appear?
The field of grace is a womb and Love our mother nurturing to life the unborn that can only arise from a fecund emptiness
“Rest in the Beloved, Wait patiently” says the ancient psalmist
Trusting what is trust what is but not yet seen
There are graces that emerge only out of the ground of silence and stillness even as there are songs only heard when no one is trying to listen
Let go of everything for one moment and feel the world fall into that space
The tomb of Jesus was fallow time without which, resurrection was not possible for him – you and me, everyone, as well
So, learn to trust the emptiness Silent and waiting until…
