Friday, August 3, 2012

Fear Not Darkness or Silence


I don't doubt God often.

But when I do, its usually in connection to disconnection.

Have you ever been stricken dumb by loneliness?

It seems to be one of the few sensations that force my mind back to adolescence or rather make me an adolescent.

I typically find people deal with lack of inclusion two ways: either embracing it deeply, wrapping the darkness about themselves like a cheap blanket, or denying its existence. The latter are those whom never have a lack of activities in which to engage, obsessed with the heat of other bodies, any and all invitations become their own, but what they really fear is themselves, their minds. All about them must be noise: ticking, flicking, blaring, loud, deafening, to mask true thought. They fear what their brains will do, once freed from shushing sounds, from headphones, from hand-held lightboxes, from far away voices yelling and fuzzing into their ears.

But if one ever learned to listen to the silence, they might here God.

He speaks through the guttural drops of anxiety, pleading with us to pray, especially at the moments we least care to.

No one in Christ is ever truly alone.

“See to it that you do not refuse him [God] who speaks.”
- Hebrews 12:25

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