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Silence fills the halls of my life with dread.

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Your heart is the source connecting you to everything here on earth.

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She gets so afraid. Afraid that you’ll use her fears against her. Afraid that you’ll say things that would create more cracks — unfixable cracks.

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Revealing your truth is your path to healing. You will stumble along the way, but you will walk upright after you say it. Then, move forward. 

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The days are long but a whole year, a lifetime, a decade flashes in a blink of an eye.

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Feeling overwhelmed? You’re not the only one.

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I think the greats knew this secret — that to write one needs space and silence and a place to think.

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Because if a person decides to give you the silent treatment, they rarely take it back.

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But, part of that change is forgetting what silence is. The state of nothingness, of being exposed without the make-ups we put in our faces to conceal the marks of our past. We failed to meditate anymore fearing these thoughts will just destroy the image we build in and out. We forgot the essence of Zen, the need for the mind to relax and transcend from the chaos of the lives we’re living in.

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God doesn’t want to compete with the distractions of the world but desires to see us make time to be in fellowship with Him, not just on Sundays but in those quiet, still moments throughout the week.