Edith Wallace

Break silence only with words worth more than silence

Edith Wallace | November 2003 (Vol. XVI, No. 10)

Take great care to restrain your tongue and be circumspect. Let only discretion and charity open your mouth. And practice the advice of all the Saints to break silence only with words that are worth more than silence. Silence is one of the most certain signs that God dwells in a soul.

~ by Edith Wallace

When silence enters

Edith Wallace | November 2001 (Vol. XIV, No. 10)

When silence enters
The whole universe changes
But the birds still sing.

~ by Edith Wallace

I gather my words

Edith Wallace | January 1999 (Vol. X, No. 1)

I gather my words with a spoon
and they turn into soup!

I gather my words with a rake
and the beautiful fertile earth shows --

I gather my words with your love
and I become silent.

~ Edith Wallace

I hear the bluebird's song

Edith Wallace | June 1993 (Vol. VI, No. 6)

Silent and still
my father stands
before our summer shelter

He is thinking a prayer
to the Holy Ones,
asking them
this day
to keep our feet
on the trail of beauty.

Filling the silence
of my father's prayer
I hear the bluebird's song.

~ "Morning Prayer" by Ann Clark from A QUEEN'S QUEST by Edith Wallace
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