Ryan is a good friend of ours. He recently spent a few months in Ecuador, and now he's vagabonding around Kansas and the rest of the country. He also goes by Ry-man.
More Than Words
Have you sat in front of people that just did not talk? Like you’re two feet away from there and they’re just staring off into the distance. They’re not in a hurry. They’re not going oddly slow. They’re just sitting there. Little whispers here and there. A grimace; a smile; a playful kick to the ankle.
Is it weird? It is meant to be? What if they’re just enjoying their time together? Maybe their connection is deeper than words. Maybe they’re just enjoying each other’s presence. Maybe that’s how relationship with God needs to be.
There is something to be said about an intimate experience with the Lord where nothing is said. Mother Theresa was asked what she says when she prays. She said, ‘nothing, I just listen to God.’ ‘What does God say,’ was the following question. ‘Nothing, He just listens to me.” Perhaps that is the way to relate to the creator of the universe. The One who is not in the earthquake, fire or wind, but rather in the still quiet whisper. To mature beyond the need for words and just to sit in each other’s presence. To allow the Presence and love of the Lord to wash over you like a babbling brook over a stone.
You know happens to that stone? Eventually it becomes smoother and smoother, and smaller and smaller, and then finally, after mountains of time the stone dissolves into nothing.
And the two become one.
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