Silence to Reverence
In silence, we gather our soul.
in the 1960s, Americans were transfixed as television broadcasts showed astronauts venturing into the beauty and silence of outer space. One viewer wrote to NASA, pleading that they mute all commentary and allow silence to transport viewers into worship.
The book of Ecclesiastes says we need reverent silence as much as we need air or water. And that without its gravitational tug we float off into superficiality.
An art teacher testified that two minutes of silence with her third grade class was transformative – one of her students wrote, “in silence, we gather our soul, so it travels with us.”
As Christ carried the cross through the crowd in silence, He invited us to feel the strongest tug in the universe – the love of God around which all life finds its orbit.
More on the topic:
- Even atheists talked reverently of the space explorations
- The ‘silent years’ of Jesus in Nazareth
- UT Austin professor Woodruff wrote a wonderful book on reverence
- Praying for reverence