My dear friends, Each year as Lent comes I am asked how the days can be used positively as we journey towards Easter. The world is a noisy place and even our small corner of it has more than its fair share of noise.
Silence is therefore a rare and precious thing.
It is not just the absense of noise but the presence of what hoise usually drowns out. Silence can be the place in which we both seek and experience the presence of God. It is a time to do nothing at all, no mental conversing, no planning or organising, nor even thinking up lovely thoughts. Find a time and a space where you can be alone and in absolute silence for about fifteen minutes on one day each week of Lent. Some find getting up earlier than usual is the only way to do this.