I had never before experienced silence in worship which was so pregnant with spiritual significance, and which provided space for me to listen and to attend to that still small voice within. Since the 1950's, Taize has been attracting young people from all over the world, who come for a multitude of reasons, but find at Taize genuine hospitality, unconditional acceptance, and an expression of the Christian faith which is fresh and new and so different from their experiences of church. I was profoundly moved by the hundreds of young people enthusiastically participating in the daily prayer, and singing the songs of Taize with such obvious passion and deep sincerity. I am convinced that the Taize experience can, if duplicated here in North America, become a powerful tool of the Holy Spirit to provide the spiritual nourishment that so many of our young people hunger for. The Tablet of the Heart is a forum for commentary about issues facing the church, essays about spiritual journeys, and tales of miracles and grace in our congregations.
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Do not draw consolation only from the scriptures written in ink, for God's grace also writes the laws of the Spirit directly on the tablet of the heart. The insidiousness of racial profiling is that the driver doesn't know why he or she was stopped, that is unless or until the officer finds an excuse. Until then, one is reminded of their blackness, or the fact that they are visibly Latina or Latino. Then he started asking me a series of questions, asked for my driver's license, how long I had been in the California, if I was the primary driver of the vehicle, etc. Then he came back.