Hush your heart

  • I didn’t real­ize it had been so long since I had any­thing to say. Well, as Greg will attest, it’s not that I haven’t had any­thing to say — he prob­a­bly wishes I had noth­ing to say. It’s just that the new work­flow I talked about really eats up the time I used to put in here. I miss the chance to blather politely along about this and that. But then, given this quote from yesterday’s “Daily Lives,” it may be just as well that I’ve got a lit­tle imposed silence going on:

    If your tongue is used to chat­ter­ing, your heart will remain dim and for­eign to the lumio­nous intu­itions of the Holy Spirit. But if your mouth is silent, your heart will ever be aflame with the spirit … hush your tongue that your heart may speak, and hush your heart that God may speak.

    – St. John of Dalyatha

    I par­tic­u­larly like that last part, espe­cially these days when the brand of Chris­tian­ity most peo­ple are exposed to is the kind that is all about talk­ing (and talk­ing and talk­ing) about how God makes you feel, how know­ing the Lord gives you a warm glow, how you can sense the Holy Spirit in this place or that. I’m as fond of warm glows as the next per­son, but it seems to me to give too much credit to feel­ings. Mine, at least, aren’t nearly such per­fect indi­ca­tors of the Holy Spirit’s actions. Bet­ter maybe, as the saint says, to just hush.


    Related posts:

    1. They see your heart
    2. Bright Fri­day and my wooden heart
    3. Inward peace
    4. As we set out
    5. “Lord, have mercy”, cont.

    August 3rd, 2008 | Grace | 3 Comments |

3 Responses and Counting...

  • Tanya 08.03.2008

    so true. this hits home.
    nonethe­less, it’s good to have you back :)

  • Grace

    Thank you! And we note that I couldn’t resist ‘chat­ter­ing’ out another blog entry, as long as I was in the neigh­bor­hood. :-)

  • James the Thickheade

    Thanks Grace. The noise and my con­tri­bu­tion to it are prob­lems. Try­ing to have some­thing to say — just another. Think­ing about NOT say­ing it… priceless.

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