7 years ago I was blessed with moving away from a busy suburb to the mountains of Southern California. The first thing I noticed as I unpacked my car was the silence. It was deafening. I stopped what I was doing and looked around as if searching for the source of this noiselessness.
No planes, no cars, no busy roads or neighbors. It was unfamiliar - this level of quietude. It was eerie. It resembled the silence before something big happens in a movie. I was unnerved. But I was also in awe. I knew I was witnessing something rare, something special. A gift.
It was like the pause before creation.
There is a magical world within silence that is patiently waiting to be used. It’s there between the words in a sentence and it’s there between your thoughts. It is the world of You.
Beneath the busy-ness of life, the noises, the distractions, the pressing urgencies - is another aspect of life that may just be your lifeline. It is a treasure unseen and unused by many. It is the home of, and the invitation to go nose to nose with You, the you that is ever-present within each moment of life. It witnesses all the busy comings and goings and all the ceaseless changes - while it never budges.
A moment ago I said, “It was like the pause before creation.” and boom! if I didn’t hit the nail right on the head. Every thought you think, every assumption you hold creates your world. Nothing in this world exists without your life-giving energy and attention.
What if silence is the space, the moment just before you create? What if it is an opportunity to halt, revise, recreate and design every and anything?
What if silence is what you’ve been seeking and searching for all along? And it’s always been right there, just waiting for you to slow down enough to see it.
Often, when friends come up to the mountains to visit - I observe them desperately, and unknowingly, needing to fill the silence. They want to turn on the TV (even though they are not watching it), look at or scroll through their phones, or they want to go out to the neighboring towns just to be doing something until they pass out exhausted.
But what would we find if we simply allowed the silence to fill our world - just for a moment or two? What if we took two breaths instead of one between our words? What if we chose to be bold enough to turn up the volume within silence?
💋KMFC
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