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July 5, 2026 - For the Church at the St. John Church of Christ
Spiritual Discipline: Silence
It is difficult to find silence in an age of technology and information. Silence challenges our cultural addiction to amusement, words, music, advertising, noise, alarms, and voices. Silence asks for patience and waiting. And both silence and waiting make us uncomfortable. They seem so unproductive. We can’t tell if we are doing anything in them. So, when we come upon silence, we fill it. We cram it with something else we can learn or do or achieve.
The discipline of silence is the desire to free myself from the addiction to and distraction of noise so I can be totally present to the Lord; to open myself to God in the place beyond words. Silence is a regenerative practice of attending and listening to God in quiet, without interruption and noise.
We break the silence of travel with an iPod, the silence of evening hours with the TV or computer, the silence of sleep with an alarm clock. Every part of our life is inundated with words – urgent words, random words, trivial words, hurtful words, managing words, religious words and on and on. We need to understand that the world can go on without us for an hour or a day or even longer. We don’t need to respond to every word and request that comes our way. The discipline of silence invites us to leave behind the competing demands of our outer world for time alone with God.
In quietness we often notice things we would rather not notice or feel. Pockets of sadness or anger or loneliness or impatience begin to surface. Silence is a time to rest in God. Lean into God, trusting tha
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