In the quiet of the crucifixion morn, there was an episode of silence - when no noise was to be heard throughout.
Amidst a crowd in field and stone, shouldered by thoroughfares and the usual trades, the silence stepped in with nuclear effect, and engulfed the merge of the usual cacophony.
Yes! Silence can be pervasive: it can overrun and over-score all else.
Silence is the more potent - it is, within its own sphere, a body with its very own consciousness that may visit when needed or invited - a heavenly force that will quieten all else for a time.
Silence, holy silence, is not a deficit of noise, nor does it stifle activity … it is a sound of such high frequency, it is a ‘passion’ that appears mute because it cannot be heard - and yet its powerful presence can, for a time, exclude all else.
Nothingness is never really nothing - it is merely imperceptible - and the grace of sweet silence is that it speaks directly to the spirit.
In the morning of His passing, when the ground heaved and shuddered with the desperation from those who had witnessed all hope evaporate and withdraw, came the silence.
He, the Lord Jesus Christ, made this possible, on this very day: that thereby and going forward all souls have a direct line to His higher instincts and counsel.
This incarnated silence then introduced into a very noisy world has remained up until now and will persevere throughout.
Every soul is thus connected to each other and to Him, and in multitudes of the ecstatic powers for which the majesty and wonder of the enduring life presides.
