We may have a lot of turbulence and a lot of distraction and a lot of turmoil going on in our minds, and in our hearts, and in our feelings, but that’s okay. That doesn’t disturb that stillness that is at the centre of our city, in our heart. And it is out of that stillness and that the work of silence, that the knowledge of God arises. An ambiguous phrase, ‘knowledge of God’. We might think it means our knowledge of God, which it does; but equally, and importantly, it means God’s knowledge of us. Our knowledge of God is very small compared with God’s knowledge of us. Perhaps the most important basic kind of work of being human is that work of silence, and everything falls into anarchy, everything falls into chaos if we lose that connection that comes through silence.
The work of silence, connection and disconnection
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