Silence is one of the necessary comforts. It is essential to clear thought and meditation, to feeling secure in a place. It allows for reading so complete that I can enter a new world. It invites invigorating ideas, and sometimes, it invites peaceful sleep. Silence should not be frightening. It does not wrap me in loneliness, quite the opposite; it leads me to the full awareness that I am not alone.

How frightening it is that so many people are plugged into noise so completely that they cannot hear God.

To have questioning faith is like having clay that is still soft and malleable.
It is frightening to think about molding a vessel that might crumble, that might shatter in the firing. A brick is secure and steady, but it doesn’t hold much.