Just... shut up!!! That's what I'd like to say sometimes.
The thing I miss most about being a pastor of a small country church is... the silence and solitude. I need that to think. Also to write. That's the hardest thing about my life right now. Even when I am alone in the afternoons I'm so wiped out from work and getting up so early that my mind has no peace.
Not only is it difficult to write simple blog posts like this (and I still dream about writing better ones)... I'm not even able to keep up with email anymore. Just this morning I deleted 50-some emails because I know I'll never get around to reading them. I also left about 50 in my inbox because I actually DO want to read them (and maybe even respond to a few).
One thing I have done is try to get away from the NEED to write every day. Sometimes I just can't. Either I have nothing to say or nothing worthwhile to say.
Our news suffers from this. The idea that we need 24/7 news has polluted society with non-news, fake news, totally made up news... all because someone has told them they've got to give us something!
No!!! We don't need more!
Anyway, these thoughts arose as I pondered this quote this morning:
"The problem is no longer getting people to express themselves but providing little gaps of solitude and silence in which they might eventually find something to say. ... What a relief to have nothing to say, the right to say nothing, because only then is there a chance of framing ... the thing that might be worth saying." -- Gilles Deleuze
Yeah, there's likely a Lenten message there... but I've got nothing more today.
Sometimes I say too much.
1 comment:
"Little gaps of solitude and silence," who knew that would seem like such a luxury in our world?
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