Lenten Reflection Series, 28 March 2009

BREAKING THE SILENCE

"If God is silent, it may be because we are not speaking God's language yet, but there is still time. God has taught us how to break the silence and has even given us the words. "Here I am." They are the words we long to hear, but they are also the words God longs for us to speak--to stand before a sister, a brother, and say, "Here I am."

Those of us who decide to try it should listen real hard when we are through, because there is likely to be an echo in the air--not silence anymore, but the very voice of God, saying, 'Yes. Hello. Welcome home. Here I am. Here I am.'"

--Barbara Brown Taylor