It was in the silence she was most uncomfortable. Nothing was hidden when that room was entered. There was no hiding behind words that filled space, no noise to consume the nothingness she felt, nothing to grasp as her insides climbed in a potential free-fall to the bottom.  All was too mysterious, unknown, and intimate for one on the search... for one seeking another out... but then the seeker can never be found.

He sat with her.  He had sought her out that morning and been waiting for a moment to be heard. All she spoke of, He already knew.  All she asked for He would give from eternity.  All her feelings known from birth.  He sat with her.  He sat as she read, He sat as she journaled, He sat as she got up to get another coffee.  He watched her.  He was amazed by her.  He was so pleased with her.  As He sat with her, He desired so much more for her... for them. In her asking, He whispered to her.  

So faint was the whisper that she almost missed it. It was like a quick and quiet glance.  Like the beginning and the end with an assumed middle.  She was filled.  In a moment she had been filled.  In hearing she got up and went about her day.

He had not yet finished.  There was so much more.  As the room was left hidden, as she went about her day.  The beginning and the end, a middle should never be assumed. 

What is it that keeps us from the intimacy of silence?  Is it what we may hear from our Lord and not like what he says?  Do we not have the discipline and practiced peace to hear? Are we lacking in trust and patience?   Or is it that we think we can do without?  Whatever excuses you use, I would invite you to rethink them, take responsibility for them, and begin to practice the gift of quieting your soul. While the world spirals in chaos around you, practice silence.   While your world falls apart, and you are helpless to do anything else, practice silence.

It is when we are completely empty of ourselves our talents, our wants, our needs, our stuff that He will begin to speak, build, answer.  To have nothing is to gain it all.  In nothing, in the silence, in that empty room you will seek and find and keep your Salvation.  

"He says, “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”" Ps. 46:10

"He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet! Be still!” Then the wind died down and it was completely calm." Mark 4:39

"Tremble and do not sin; when you are on your beds, search your hearts and be silent." Ps. 4:4

...In Silence Spirit speaks to spirit. There is no physical involved.  As you grasp this truth not only will you know the sound of the Savior, but recognize Him in others.  In what others say, the transfer of communication becomes spirit, and so much fuller in its understanding.  The richness of communication made in the likeness of being one with Him as He is one with the Father is a rare found gem.  It can be found in the body. It can be found in relationships.  and it is meant for the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ, to always point us back to Him who gave us all we are in Him.