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Silence as Consent

The Prayerful Life No. 6

Jun 6, 2014

Saying For Today: The Silence is this Prayer of consent to Grace...


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Brian K. Wilcox, a vowed Contemplative in the Christian tradition, and Associate of Greenbough House of Prayer, offers an interspiritual work focusing on cultivating the Heart of Compassion. His book of mystical Love poetry is An Ache for Union: Poems on Oneness with God through Love. Brian integrates wisdom from the major spiritual Paths. May you always know that you are blessed!

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Silence is God's first language; everything else is a poor translation. In order to hear that language, we must learn to be still and to rest in God.

*Thomas Keating.

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Mary, Mother of Jesus, said
to the angel Gabriel
"Let it be done to me, according to your Word"

This consent
to the silent, mysterious working of Grace

Is the Prayer
arising while resting quietly, wakefully
in the Silence

The Silence
is this Prayer
of consent to Grace

Silence
is glad surrender in inarticulate confession
"Do Your Will within and through me
I cannot do It with or through myself"

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* * * CLOSING BLESSING * * *

Grace and Peace to All

The Sacred in Me bows to the Sacred in You

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