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friardchips
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I recently watched a couple of movies that were emotional in their own ways about people who, as adults, seem estranged from their parents, either still living or dead, and the entanglements that these grown up children feel due to the hanging on of childhood traumas languishing and making a pain of themselves in these people’s psyches. And through the plots, these people meet new people, and from venting their inner anguish together, and speaking about all their feelings, somehow find the strength to live again, with the new people in their lives (funny enough, both these films came together through the post and were both set in France; inconsequential yet still quaint). Anyhoo…
This made me think of the value of silence. It occurred to me that for some - those who have never had the experience of religious belief - must find it very hard to heal without knowledge of our Creator, because when someone has not Christian faith, they are in a sense trapped in their own grief, as they can’t see beyond their shell. Unable to see any horizon other than the ‘backdrop’ that is their own past. The characters in these films found some hope by talking about their feelings with those who also had issues and were suffering deep down due to childhood issues their parents had handed on. But ultimately I came away thinking that much of what they said did not need to be. These characters said what many people work through in the silence. Not that I look down on people that need to talk about their emotions, if it helps then very good, it is great in fact, but rather when people have Christian belief these personal crosses can be offered up in prayer and in the silence the Creator heals. He heals even when we don’t know He is healing. He brings together even when we don’t know He is patching up. He is guiding even when we are suffering. And silence is an important reciprocatory (not sure that’s a word) act of dedication to saying thank you for all the work we don’t see or hear that makes words in comparison mere noise - to be silent before the Creator is to trust that He is with us and for us. This places the need onto the Creator’s shoulders.
The truth is, through prayer and silence, the Holy Rosary can become our ‘backdrop’; the Mysteries of the Holy Rosary can become the heavenly garden in which we stroll, daily, not to take time out, but to partake of holy rest.
Thoughts?
This made me think of the value of silence. It occurred to me that for some - those who have never had the experience of religious belief - must find it very hard to heal without knowledge of our Creator, because when someone has not Christian faith, they are in a sense trapped in their own grief, as they can’t see beyond their shell. Unable to see any horizon other than the ‘backdrop’ that is their own past. The characters in these films found some hope by talking about their feelings with those who also had issues and were suffering deep down due to childhood issues their parents had handed on. But ultimately I came away thinking that much of what they said did not need to be. These characters said what many people work through in the silence. Not that I look down on people that need to talk about their emotions, if it helps then very good, it is great in fact, but rather when people have Christian belief these personal crosses can be offered up in prayer and in the silence the Creator heals. He heals even when we don’t know He is healing. He brings together even when we don’t know He is patching up. He is guiding even when we are suffering. And silence is an important reciprocatory (not sure that’s a word) act of dedication to saying thank you for all the work we don’t see or hear that makes words in comparison mere noise - to be silent before the Creator is to trust that He is with us and for us. This places the need onto the Creator’s shoulders.
The truth is, through prayer and silence, the Holy Rosary can become our ‘backdrop’; the Mysteries of the Holy Rosary can become the heavenly garden in which we stroll, daily, not to take time out, but to partake of holy rest.
Thoughts?
I thought no one might reply as a response! But it is thoughtful of people to have done so.