Silence is a Gift

Perhaps that's why we call it "the present"

We live in a noisy world. And much of the soundtrack of our lives is lovely — the laughter of children playing, the barking of a friendly dog, the ringing of a telephone when a loved one calls from far away. The mystical life is not about eliminating noise (or sound) in our lives, but it does call us to pay attention to the silence that dances between t…