Our Daily Bread continues to be a blessing to many& to my *On This Morning* devotional.
I bring you Nov.23 edition of Our Daily Bread titled The *Sounds of Silence.* Here we go:
_The Feeling buddy of mine observed,"Shallow streams make the most noise," a delightful turn on the old adage,"Still waters run deep."_
_He meant,of course,that people who make the most noise tend to have littleof substance to say._
_The flip side of that problem is that we don't listen well either. I'm reminded of the line in the old Simon and Garfunkel song Sounds of Silence about folks hearing without listening._
_Oh,they hear the words,but they fail to silence their own thoughts and truly listen. It would be a good if we all learned to be silent and still._
_There is 'a time to be silent and a time to speak.'(Eccl.3:Good Silence is a listening silence, a humble silence. It leads to right hearing,right understanding and right speaking._
_"The purposes of a person's heart are deep waters,the proverb says,but one who has insight draws them out.'_ (Prov. 20:5)
_It takes a lot of hard listening to get all the way to the bottom._
_And while we listen to others,we should also be listening to God and hearing what he has to say._
_I think of Jesus,scribbling with his finger in the dust while the pharisees railed on the woman caught in adultery.(John 8:1-11).What was he doing?_
_May I suggest that he could have been simply listening for his Father's voice and asking,"_
_What shall we say to this crowd and his dear woman?"His response is still being heard around the world._
_Well-timed silence can be more eloquent than words._
*SO I SAY:*
*THIS IS A SOUND OF SILENCE FROM OUR DAILY BREAD.*
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