4. Listen

  1. The click click click click of the ceiling fan
  2. The air-conditioner fighting to cool down the summer-day’s heat
  3. The swish swish swish of bare feet on carpet
  4. The faint as a mouse high-pitch squeak of the door opening
  5. Tap tap tap of each letter I type
  6. My breathing
  7. My mind wondering if God’s voice is somewhere down inside me
  8. The silence – the anticipatory silence of my soul

What do you hear when you really stop to listen?

ssshhhh…..

Friday, July 11, 2008

our overflowing laundry baskets, sorely neglected, cried out for relief.

the only other softball wife i really knew would not be attending this game.

so, i decided to cancel plans to cheer my husband (and the rest of the Red Scallions) on, in order to spend the evening conquering the laundry.

between loads (and loads and loads) i spent time in silence in my apartment…

reading.

thinking.

reading.

listening.

and took a much-needed breath.

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“Silence comes to heal the blows of sound.”

~Oliver Wendell Holmes

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how often do you get time alone? what do you do with it?

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