On Silent Retreat

medieval residential buildings in scenic highlands

With its air of confidence,

simplicity confounds untrained senses,

a body numb with over-stimulus—

unused to being

until

a good night’s sleep and an early walk

through treed grounds marked

with stations of the cross—places

to kneel—remedy what is

weary

and a ransacked heart comes to release burdens

it didn’t know it carried—but that silence

threw into relief, prompting prayer

to him who is holy, boldly

grants peace

at the point in the journey, the story,

where it is needed.

there are places we can go, locally, designed to foster prayer, times of reflection and even set the stage for personal repentance, all things that serve to re-set, re-new, re-store what has been lost, or neglected for too long; these places start by extending, morphing the nature of time; they help release the pressure we’re under to perform within a certain time; and so they invite us to connect (or re-connect) with what is eternal and pure within and without; in other words, they put us in closer touch with God

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Published by Dayna E. Mazzuca

Contemplative Christian Poet, Author & Speaker

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