Deafning Silence?

I always wondered what people meant by deafning silence. How can the lack of sound cause one to go deaf? I think I know now what they meant.

Sometimes when you don't hear anything, when there is nothing, it becomes the loudest thing you will ever hear. Silence is deafning. Without the sounds we become familiar with in ourl ives, when they are silenced, we find ourselves very alone. In that loneleniss we find that all that we hear is ourselves. Our minds constantly make noise in the absence of others. It is in that where we become deaf.

Today is the start of Lent a time when we turn from our own lives and look towards the cross and Easter. Today I will give up the silence, today I will try and bring noise back into my world. Even if its not from the familar sound that I miss, I will try to bring a new noise into my life; a joyful noise, not unto myself but unto God, in preperation for this Lenten season.


Romans 8:24-28
24For inhope we were saved. Now hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for what is seen? 25But if we hope for what we do not see, we wait for it with patience.
26 Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words. 27And God, who searches the heart, knows what is the mind of the Spirit, because the Spirit intercedes for the saints according to the will of God. 28a We know that all things work together for goodfor those who love God,... (NRSV)