Stillness
One
of the many blessings in my life is the opportunity to live at this
time surrounded by the beautiful expansive woods and fields of
Skyline Camp and Retreat Center. Yet even here, even in the calmer,
cooler months of the year, the noise and busyness of our world
bullies its way in.
The
following words, a few lines excerpted from a Wendell Berry poem,
remind me with such economy and simple rhyme, of the need to seek
opportunities for silence and stillness. I see in his phrase “borne,
preserved, and comprehended” a beautiful Trinitarian parallel.
The
mind that comes to rest is tended
In
ways it cannot intend,
Is
borne, preserved, and comprehended
By
what it cannot comprehend.
Sometimes,
like Berry, I need to seek the “mind at rest.” At all times, I
need to be open like Elijah to the unexpected moments of sheer
silence in which God’s presence can be.
Give
us silence so that we can hear the word of the Lord, like Elijah,
through a still small voice. Amen.
Matt
Henry
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