Today’s Life-Line is:

American culture devalues silence. “Be quiet!” “Shut up!” “Children are meant to be seen, not heard,” all belie an underlying antipathy toward silence. Public and parochial schools offer courses in speech and communication. But who will foster in persons the love of silence, the capacity to listen deeply? Who will introduce them to the world of communion? What about that place “too deep for words” where we hear not only the song of the mockingbird and the green movement of the wind in the trees but also the still small voice of God?

~ Dan Miller from “Prayer and the Religious Educator”