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The Silence

12/5/2013

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“Music is the silence between the notes.” Claude DeBussy
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"Listen" 22" x 28" oil painting by Debra Clemente
We have forgotten the silence. We have forgotten what it is, what is natural and true. We have forgotten to listen for the silence. We have forgotten to pause, take rests, take breaths. Instead we hold our breath in fear, unable to release our hold on even the air God gives us, not trusting more is there waiting in the silence, in the stillness of the clear.

God is this breath of silence. God is the pause between the breaths. God is the rest. The rest we are to take comfort in, and immerse ourselves within.

We have forgotten God exists and that we exist within Him, within the vastness of this eternal presence He is. What He is, we are. But we have forgotten. We have forgotten to pause and pray, to have moments of silence throughout our day. So we don’t hear the music that plays in our ears, the sounds of God, the Silence that says “I am here. Walk not in fear, for I am with you eternally. Call on Me. Be still and know, I am.  Take rest. Take a deep breath. Breath into Me. Breath into all the fullness of Life you can be. I am here. Hear clear, the Silence that is.”

Journaling my Journey
December, 2013 ~ Debra Clemente 



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Stefan Svedberg
12/5/2013 02:58:31 am

I love the silence when I am working and when I am working I am writing. And that is the time when you need to concentrate on what is hiding deep inside you. Maybe you don´t hear any voices here or lovely music but there are so much more inside you!
I remember all those lovely moments when sitting alone in my room just wondering how on earth it would be possible to share anything about the subject I have chosen no matter if it was an article for a newspaper or a book I was planning. Suddenly I just knew it without knowing how but it was just there the whole idea in my brain crystal clear in words and sentences just to be written down. The inner voice had spoken!
It is like a dream often. It is just there. The idea, the sentence or the right word as if someone had given it to me or spoken. And so it was and still is. I the silence lies the solution to the word, the sentence, the article, the story and the novel to be written down thanks to the inner voice that we often call inspiration. We just sit there in our loneliness waiting for something to happen and after a while in complete silence it is just there like a dream in the middle of the day and maybe we just say heureka or thanks to God!

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Debra Clemente
12/5/2013 04:33:05 am

Thank you dear Stefan for taking your time and energy to add your deep thoughts to this vast subject of the beauty and opportunity that awaits us in the Silence.

I believe that your words speak to the meaning of the phrase "We are to wait upon God." We are to wait in silence, without the interruption of our own small mind to hear within the silence, the voice of God, the wisdom of God, pour forth into our knowing.

Enjoy the view, wherever life takes you. ~ Debra Clemente

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