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 Mikmaq on the Atlantic coast have no sound for Nature. They have "space" or "place of creation" ... they have cultural literacy with the ecosystem ... every aspect of nature to Mikmaqs is Spirit. They live in harmony with this intelligible essence. The Mikmaq can perceive the web.
