I was skipping stones on a lake not to long ago. The whole time I was trying to see if I could get over ten skips, but I wasn’t having much luck. So, I lay down on the beach for a while and then sat back up and looked over the water. It was completely still…all the ripples had settled…there was no noise. I could see clearly the reflection of the mountains that fed into the lake. I could hear the wind diving over the lake from the treetops. Manning said, “Though silence sometimes involves the absence of speech it always involves the act of listening for it is out of silence and solitude that true speech is forged.” How often are you in silence? How long does it take for ‘the ripples’ to settle?
[mark 6.45-46]
[1 john 1.1-3]
