Good evening,
Silence is charity
Silence is sometimes being quiet, but silence is always listening.
An absence of noise that would be empty of our attention to the Word of God would no longer be silence.
A day full of noise and full of voices can be a day of silence if the noise becomes for us an echo of God's presence.
When we speak of ourselves and through ourselves, we step out of silence.
When we repeat with our lips the intimate suggestions of God's word deep within us, we leave the silence intact.
Silence does not like an abundance of words.
We know how to speak or how to remain silent, but we are bad at making do with the necessary words.
Silence is charity and truth.
He answers the one who asks him for something, but he gives only words charged with life. Silence, like all rules of life, leads us to the gift of ourselves and not to a disguised stinginess. But it keeps us gathered for this gift.
Silence is not a viper that flees at the slightest noise; it is an eagle with powerful wings that soars above the clamor of the earth, of men, and of the wind.
Madeleine Delbrêl, We, the people of the streets
Good evening
Marylena