"When you feel despised, imitate the kingfisher, who builds its nest on the masts of ships. That is to say, raise yourself up above the earth, elevate yourselves with your mind and heart to God, who is the only one who can console you and give you strength to withstand the trial in a holy way." ~ Saint Padre Pio

Silence IS about emptying. But it is not something to fear. Because the best friend of all is waiting to fill the silence. ~ Judith Costello

“Slay me though he might, I will wait for him,” he says in Job 13:15.

Job endures God’s silence through the first 37 chapters of the book. It’s important to remember that this was not mere silence amid the ordinary course of affairs—it happened during a period of tremendous pain and suffering in the life of Job, a time when he was in dire need of God. http://catholicexchange.com/when-god-is-silent

Dear Lord, I don't know who or what will cross my path today. But I do know that You are my Rock and You are my Shield and my Strong tower . Help me to fully anchor myself to You today. Teach me how to stand strong in You and choose only Your way today. More of you less of me .Help me walk by Your truth and not by my feelings. Help me to embrace anything that comes my way and have the wisdom to see even the challenges as an opportunity to see You at work and as an opportunity to see your face in others , in everyone I meet today . Thank You that You love me and nothing can ever take that away from me! Even if I fail today and fall short, You whisper Your unconditional sweet love deep into my soul and remind me that Your mercies are new every morning. What a blessing . Thank You for meeting with me today. For waking me with the sweet whisper of Your love? I hear you in every wave that crashes on the beach below . I hear your love sweetly singing to me in the song of the morning birds . I feel you in the gentle sunrise kissing my eyelids and the gentle breeze on my face reassures me I am not alone for you are always with me . Thank you Lord for always being right here with me . I love you and offer this day to you . More of you , less of me .Thank you for all my blessings Amen

~ Roma Downey's morning prayer for Jan 26, 2017

Pray for the wisdom you need to recognize when you’ve become dangerously tired – exhausted by life’s demands, to the point where you can’t hear God’s voice speaking to you. Accept God’s invitation to rest in His presence during solitude and silence.

http://www.crosswalk.com/faith/spiritual-life/how-to-meet-god-through-silence-and-solitude.html

Let silence be a refuge full of meaning, a rest from a noisy world

"It is the mourning that will know the joy of comfort (Matthew 5:4). It is the hungry and thirsty that will be satisfied (Matthew 5:6). Longing makes us ask, emptiness makes us seek, silence makes us knock (Luke 11:9)."

from: When God Seems Silent, by Jon Bloom"

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God doesn’t need us to speak aloud in order to hear us. When we pray from our hearts, we connect to the heart of God. And to the hearts of every other praying soul. ~ Debbi Geller

Pachelbel in the Garden ...

My soul waits for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning. ~ Psalm 130:6

For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. ~ 1 Corinthians 13:12

In solitude and silence you’re learning to stop doing, stop producing, stop pleasing people, stop entertaining yourself, stop obsessing — stop doing anything except to simply be your naked self before God and be found by him. http://www.soulshepherding.org/2005/08/solitude-and-silence/

Dear God,

Calm me that I may walk gently through this valley knowing that on the other side is my miracle that I will step into at Your appointed time.

Amen

Gentleness

Be gentle with yourself. You don't just live in this world or your home or your skin. You also live in someone's eyes. ~ Sanober Khan

Patience and Time

Teach me, my Lord, to be sweet and gentle in all the events of my life, in disappointments, in the thoughtlessness of others, in the insincerity of those I trusted, in the unfaithfulness of those on whom I relied. Let me forget myself so that I may enjoy the happiness of others. Let me always hide my little pains and heartaches so that I may be the only one to suffer from them. Teach me to profit by the suffering that comes across my path. Let me so use it that it may mellow me, not harden or embitter me; that it may make me patient, not irritable; that it may make me broad in my forgiveness, not narrow or proud or overbearing. May no one be less good for having come within my influence; no one less pure, less true, less kind, less noble, for having been a fellow traveler with me on our journey towards eternal life. As I meet with one cross after another, let me whisper a word of love to You. May my life be lived in the supernatural, full of power for good, and strong in its purpose of sanctity. Amen.

"Be done and home home
To the silence afterwards ...
The silence that lives in the grass
On the underside of each blade
And in the blue space between the
stones ..."

Rolf Jacobsen, The Silence Afterwards