
Faith Reels: Silence
Bonnie and Dan take a break from their hiatus to deliver a review of the new Martin Scorsese film, Silence
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Bonnie and Dan take a break from their hiatus to deliver a review of the new Martin Scorsese film, Silence
by Linda Ryan It’s a very quiet morning. There’s some roadwork going on near the house and part of the roadwork involves removing two
Certainly there was a parallel in the conversations – him pouring out his heart into my sympathetic silence, me pouring out my heart into God’s sympathetic silence.
Our lives stop being lives and begin to be a series of one-act plays on stages within audiences – since everyone we think should listen is busy on their own stage. Seven billion stages and an empty theater – empty but for God who leans forward, loving what God sees ferociously, leaning forward in his one auditorium seat, with God’s elbows on God’s knees, eyes wide, full of beaming love.
This originally appeared as part of the Daily Sip, a ministry of St John’s Cathedral in Denver, CO by Charles LaFond In these weekly
Yet the reality is, it’s made me realize that we define “silence” as, “The absence of human-created sound.” We become accustomed to the sounds, not only of our own voices, but the voices of the things we have created
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