Weekly Inspiration 10/8/2026

I pray to be steeped in silence until I fear it less

by Ted Loder

Eternal God, since silence seems to be

the voice of holiness, the only language

you speak directly,

then I pray to be steeped in it

until I fear it less and welcome it

as an usher to grace,

a narrator of sacred mysteries;

until silence cease the fretful conversations

of my mind with too little else than itself;

until silence calm my heart to an ease,

convene my senses to an anchored focus,

hush my tongue to a chastened hold;

until I discern in the silence

an answer to that necessary question

which, for the very life of me,

it has not yet occurred to me to ask;

until I am stretched alive and deep

to its dimensions, and catch,

at last and ready,

your assuring wink at me. Amen.

What I find moving about the account of the Creation is what God does at the end of each day. God pauses and ‘sees that it was good.’ That divine pause hallows that day and makes it holy. When we pause at the end of a day, and thank God for the precious gift of that day, we are declaring that it was good.

Br. Geoffrey Tristram

Society of Saint John the Evangelist