CHRISTMAS, 2015
I do not need to begin this Christmas meditation with a listing of the raucous and hurtful noises filling our world—you know it as well as I do.
And so this year my prayer for us all, near and far, friend and foe, beloved and stranger, is simply that this season of celebrating the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ might open each of our hearts to the Holy Silence of an innocent Babe born into His Father’s World, a world of beauty and abundance, a world of joy and peace, yet a world so often torn asunder by our inability, our unwillingness to recognize the eternal gifts given to all humankind, to all creation.
The Gospel of John says, “The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.” Perhaps another way of saying that could be, “The Silence swallows the noise, and the noise has not overcome it.”
COME, HOLY SILENCE
Come, Lord Jesus, Come:
Fill the earth with
Holy Silence
Holy Silence-
gift of gentleness and peace
to terror and cruelty;
Holy Silence-
gift of humility and love
to arrogance and pride;
Holy Silence-
gift of compassion and joy
to hate and revenge;
Holy Silence-
gift of calm and hope
to fear and despair;
Holy Silence-
gift of strength and faith
to doubt and distrust.
Come, Lord Jesus, Come:
Fill our hearts with
Holy Silence
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