{"id":300,"date":"2010-12-23T11:15:58","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T18:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holydwelling.com\/blog\/?p=300"},"modified":"2010-12-27T09:52:48","modified_gmt":"2010-12-27T16:52:48","slug":"be-silent-all-flesh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/holydwelling.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/23\/prayer-of-the-heart\/silence\/be-silent-all-flesh\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Silent All Flesh\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Be Silent All Flesh…the Lord has roused Himself from His Holy Dwelling.<\/em><\/strong> (Zechariah 2:13)<\/p>\n

Christmas, 2010<\/p>\n

In the midst of military, political and economic chaos in all corners of this earth:<\/p>\n

\u2026a small businessman in Maine, grateful for his freedom, begins a movement now numbering thousands of volunteers who lay Christmas wreaths on the tombs of fallen soldiers with a moment of silent prayer.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the midst of crowds thronging the malls and holiday parties, with the gaiety escalating to near-hysteria:<\/p>\n

\u2026a woman gathers her courage, and calls for silence when a child is overwhelmed by the noise and unchecked emotions swirling around him.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the midst of beeping monitors and flashing lights required by a frightening series of medical tests:<\/p>\n

\u2026a gentle nurse promises to let a patient sleep in silence through the night.<\/em><\/p>\n

In the midst of strident voices\u2014left and right\u2014decrying this or that current (and perhaps soon-to-be-forgotten) cultural battle:<\/p>\n

\u2026a 7th<\/sup> Century monk prays: \u201cO Mystery exalted beyond silence, gather my mind into the silence of prayer, free from the concerns of this world.\u201d[1]<\/strong><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Yes\u2026Let all flesh be silent. <\/em>For in these small pockets of silence, all too rare and fleeting, hidden away and often unnoticed\u2014in these precious moments between breaths when we can hear our own hearts beat . . . now is the time to keep silence.<\/p>\n

For it is only in such silence that the Holy One can rouse from His Holy Dwelling in the Heart of God, and come among us to be born in a poor stable in Bethlehem.\u00a0 Only in such silence can the Holy One bring strength and courage to the heart of a soldier keeping watch in the mountains of Afghanistan. Only in such silence can the touch of the Holy One comfort the heart of a little child surrounded \u00a0by poverty, or despair. Only in such silence can the Holy One enter our own hearts, and find once again His own Holy Dwelling.<\/p>\n

I do pray we will all find those moments of silence when the Lord enters His Holy Dwelling within our hearts.<\/p>\n

Susan Creighton+<\/em><\/p>\n


\n<\/em><\/p>\n

[1]<\/a> Isaac of Ninevah, 7th C. Syria: in The Syriac Fathers on Prayer and the Spiritual Life,<\/em><\/strong> translated by Sebastian Brock, (Kalamazoo: Cistercian Publications, 1987)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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