In the silence, ask to learn how to give of yourself, how to forgive others, and how to live with gratitude. Thus, we need not seek inner peace: Peace will find us!
Blessed are you who forgive without remembering and you who receive forgiveness without forgetting.
Even as the silence exposes my subtle deceptions, my inauthenticity, my "sins" (much deeper than a mere catalog of misdeeds) -- it exposes at the same time God's unconditional love for me:
The word blessing evokes a sense of warmth and protection; it suggests that no life is alone or unreachable. Each life is clothed in raiment of spirit that secretly links it to everything else.
~ from TO BLESS THE SPACE BETWEEN US by John O'Donohue
