Take Your Soul With You Wherever You Go
Rediscovering the power of silence
“Silence reminds me to take my soul with me wherever I go.” — written by a 5th-grade student. Excerpt from Amazing Grace by Kathleen Norris.
Making time for silence and solitude is a spiritual discipline. Neglecting silence, one runs the risk of leaving one’s soul behind.
Let’s not take that risk.
It’s not easy to find silence in today’s society
Everything — and I do mean everything — is stacked against us in an effort to eliminate silence and seduce your thought life.
Advertisers don’t want you to have time to think. If you did you’d realize you don’t need their product or you’d have time to think through the flaws in their amazing life-changing device or service.
24-hour news doesn’t want you to have time to digest the information they spew out that’s why it’s 24 hours. If you had time to reflect, analyze their stories, or do a little research on the facts, you might see that they are biased or not being entirely truthful in their reporting.
Social media is designed to steal your silence. Words, images, music, video, and needless notifications all invade the mind, pushing out space needed to contemplate or…
