The Fear of Silence
This morning I listened to a sermon about silence. How in today’s world it is hard to find. And how most people say they want more silence, but when they get it, they fear it.
They can’t take it. It’s too quiet.
I sat there listening, bouncing my baby on my knee, and thought about how I was probably the only person in the room that knows the silence of an eight year old boy. Of a nonverbal boy.
And how loud it can truly be.
How your brain can go crazy dreaming of words. How you can make yourself sick wondering why and if ever.
I thought about my own fears.
Never hearing him speak. Not knowing if he’s sad or sick or scared. Something bad happening and he can’t tell me.
It’s not the fear of the quiet like everyone thinks. It’s the fear that accompanies the silence that’ll get ya.
But I also gave myself some grace too. I’m learning that communication is so much more than spoken words.
It can be a touch, a gesture, a look or a sound. It doesn’t have to be sad. Or scary.
That my friend is acceptance. And hope.
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