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As the sun slants lower on the horizon, and the fog and rain become welcome harbingers of Autumn, my soul longs for an even deeper silence, so difficult to maintain during the bright busyness of full summer.<\/p>\n

\u00a0A week’s travel to a family gathering for my sister and brother-in-law’s 50th Anniversary–while a wonderful celebration with family and friends, and a blessed liturgy together–only made me yet more aware of how our culture is so starved for silence–for quiet, for peace, for stillness.<\/p>\n

Perhaps in this era of frantic multi-tasking and instantaneous communication, God has an even greater need of a few hidden pockets of souls listening to the Great Silence within the Heart of God.\u00a0Yet I find that even hidden away in the Anchorhold, the temptations to distractions are varied and many.<\/p>\n

One that has become personally intrusive for me is a sudden–and growing–spate of spam in comments on this Holy Dwelling blog. As a result, I have disabled the ability to comment on my blog. I will trust that if you truly are interested in commenting upon my entries in Holy Dwelling, you may find your way to communicate with me through anchorite-at-holydwelling-dot-com<\/span>….and if that gets discovered by the spammers as well, we’ll find yet another way.<\/p>\n

May you, too, find yourselves some pockets of Holy Silence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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