Will you sit a while with me?
In the silence of the early morning before the day calls you away,
will you sit a while with me?
In the twilight of the evening as the stars bid us good night, will you sit a while with me?
In the stirring of your heart with worries of this life, will you sit a while with me?
In the flurry of joy in life’s happiest of moments, will you sit a while with me?
As I have grown in this life, I find that I am often called into the silence. It is in the depth of silence I experience that intimate and so very personal connection with God. In these moment of sustained silence, I hear the profound guidance that I seek for knowing what is mine to do. How shall I express in this world, how shall I be present for others and how shall I move in my own life. It is in these insightful moments that I feel the knowing of the indescribable oneness with the Divine. This is the space that I find that The Divine is me and I am the Divine. It is the space of awareness that my heart yearns to be and when I arrive there, my desire is to remain for eternity. You may have found this space as well. You may reach this space of consciousness for a fleeting moment or you may carry yourself through each day from this deep, intensely heartfelt awareness of being. I have learned that as I practice and devote time to the silence, I slip into this depth more easily.
I have also experienced, as you may have, that I sometimes avoid the silence. When I am troubled by life’s challenges, when I am experiencing turbulence with another soul, when I am resisting what is showing up for me, or when I am avoiding a life lesson, these are the times that I can benefit even more with the practice of time in silence, yet I procrastinate. I delay going into that inner place even though I know this is where all the answers and guidance I seek is revealed. It is the incongruence of my life that pushes me away from my desire for silence. The moments that I truly need it the most, the silence reminds me of the pureness of our oneness with the Divine. In the silence, I become clear about this and so much more. I find the answer to any conflict is in Love – true love of seeing the divine of others, feeling their pain and their sorrows. It is in the silence that I am reminded that in the eye of each storm there is calm and stillness. In the silence, I know that I find answers to any and all question that arise.
In the nothingness of silence is everything. In the emptiness of silence is the fullness of life. In the abandonment of thought is One. In the relinquishing of ideas of musts and should or right and wrong is the Way. Will you sit a while with me? Will you listen in the silence? This is the sounds of the silence…
Sunday, we had heartfelt sharing of our first Unity principle “God is Absolute Good, everywhere present” and our third Unity principle “We create our experiences by the activity of our thinking. Everything in the manifest world, has its beginning in thought”. Next up, we’ll talk about the remaining principles and what life’s experiences look and feel like from the perspective of Unity principles.
Join me at 11:00 this Sunday for inspiring music, uplifting fellowship! It really is never the same without you!