Monday, October 22, 2018

Dear God,

Silence...that quiet place that opens wide to a world only you can create.  It is so much more than the absence of sound.  It is an expanse where the impossible becomes possible, where fear becomes peace and where we can meet you.

For decades I did not know this kind of silence existed until I had breast cancer.  With my diagnosis I entered a world I never knew and my hopelessness, anxiety and fear of death led me to a wondrous place filled with possibility.

As I remember back to those difficult days, I recall your living presence urging me forward to this new place where we could talk and I could listen.  My life started anew.

Holy Father,
thank you
for the blessing
of silence.
Thank you
for quiet spaces
where we
can walk
and talk together.
Thank you
for loving mercy
that invites us in.

Love, Andrea