"while gentle silence enveloped all things, and night in its swift course was now half gone, your all-powerful word leaped from heaven, from the royal throne, into the midst of the land that was doomed" (wisdom 18:14-15)
"Christmas invites us into the silence of God, and his mystery remains hidden to so many people because they can not find the silence in which God acts. How do we find it?
Mere silence on its own does not suffice to create it, for a man may be silent externally while in himself he is torn this way and that by all the confusion of the world. It is possible to keep silent yet experience a terrible din within oneself.
Becoming silent means discovering a new order of things. It means i do not limit my attention to those things I myself can produce and display to others. It means I do not limit my interest to those things men consider important and valuable.
Silence means developing the inner senses, the sense of the conscience, the sensitivity to the eternal in us, the ability to listen to God.
Scientist tell us that the dinosaur died out because they developed in the wrong direction: a lot of armor plating but not much brain, a lot of muscles and not much understanding.
Are not we, too, developing in the wrong direction: a lot of technology, but not much soul?
A thick armor plating of material know-how, but a heart that has become empty?
Have we not lost the ability to perceive the voice of God in us and recognize and acknowledge the good, the beautiful, and the true?
Let us be silent, let us speak about the savior for midnight is close at hand. Is it not high time to correct the course that our "evolution" is taking?
Christmas is met to help us achieve the correction of our course. "
Why? Because as the book of wisdom remind us "while gentle silence enveloped all things, and night in its swift course was now half gone, your all-powerful word leaped from heaven, from the royal throne, into the midst of the land that was doomed."
The incarnation happens in silence, and in the silence the incarnation of God comes to speak to us.
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