The Toddler

It is difficult to explain the language of silence to someone who is unfamiliar with it.  Here I will call this language, “God Talk.”  Think of a mother and her infant.  The mother and child spend lots of time together.  They pour themselves into one another.  The child makes a sound that you cannot understand.  But the mother knows what the child is saying in the language of infant-speak.  The rest of us only see exteriors, not interiors.  So it is with the language of silence in prayer.  One must pour themselves into it with some kind of affection-connection, or it will stay just exterior silence, the absence of sound, with no connection to intimacy.  If a mother wants to be open to the infant-speak, then the mother will not walk around with ear buds, tuning the infant out.