Johanna and me where wondering which of the two islands in the Indian Ocean, Lamu or Zanzibar we should visit for a vacation and decided on the one i have not been to…
we are on our way there in a couple weeks but I found some nice words about the place in an American newspaper:
Why [...]
In our chatty world, in which the word has lost its power to communicate, silence helps us to keep our mind and heart anchored in the future world and allows us to speak from there a creative and recreative word to the present world.
- Henri J.M. Nouwen
from The Way of the Heart
We fear so deeply what we think other people see in us, so we talk in order to straighten out their understanding. … One of the fruits of silence is the freedom to let our justification rest entirely with God.
- Richard Foster
from Celebration of Discipline
Peter began to say to him, “Look, we have left everything and followed you.” Jesus said, “Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields, for my sake and for the sake of the good news, who will not receive [...]
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