LANGUAGE OF FAITH

Christian Wiman, an American Poet, wrote, “Silence is the language of faith. Action – be it church or charity, politics or poetry – is the translation. As with any translation, action is a mere echo of its original, inevitably faded and distorted, especially as it moves farther from its source. There the comparison ends, though, for while it is true that action degrades that original silence, and your moments of meditative communion with God can seem a world away from the chaotic human encounters to which those moments compel you, it is also true that without these constant translations into action, that original, sustaining silence begins to be less powerful, and then less accessible, and then finally impossible.”
Without various actions that are motivated from our meditation, we stay in the receptive only mode. With action, that will be constantly changing, there is an attempt to put into action the things we hear and see in our prayer time. Though the receptivity is first for the one meditating…it must soon move to others to stay a viable and living response to silence.
“Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, and cast out demons. You received without paying; give without pay.” Jesus