Embracing Silence: Your Path to Serenity

“Who except God can give you peace? Has the world ever been able to satisfy the heart?”
— St. Gerard Majella

The world thirst for peace. Peace offers the human soul serenity. It gives it something that the outside world can never give. The world is so busy. We are tempted to spend all our time devoted to worldly experiences and things. But they never satisfy.

I wonder if people in times past felt this same pull toward distractions. Perhaps they did. But somehow I feel that our lives are so full of distractions whether it is the tv, the radio, a sports game, or our phones. We risk losing the precious gift of time and the quiet of the soul to things that clamor for our attention but leave our hearts empty.

Peace is the serenity of the quiet of the heart – quiet of the day. It’s the stillness of the soul, the hush of the day, the sacred pause. Find a place, whether it’s the corner of your room or the silence of a cave. Be still and listen to quiet speaking gently to you. Spend time with yourself, and with the Blessed Family—Our Heavenly Father, who waits not in the chaos, but in the calm.

May the peace of Our Heavenly Father bring you a calmness of soul.