We quiet our souls in Cor Unum, and we listen to hear what God says to the quiet and ready heart.

He speaks through His Word, through quiet impressions that we know are right and true, and God speaks through His strength to our weakness. The impossible never trips Him up or turns Him back.  Truly, to know Him and His will, we must pass through the drawbridge of all impossibility and into the portals of reality.

The best part of listening, many times, is to hear the silence that is full of God.  The Scripture says that He FILLS us with joy and peace in believing, so that we will abound in hope (Romans 15:13.)

Further, the Scripture tells us that there is a “fullness” in God that fills “all in all (Ephesians 1:23.)”  Listening for this fullness is a monastic practice FILLED with delights. This very passage reminds us that God has included the Body of Christ in this fullness.

Today in Cor Unum, let us listen above the sounds of nature and below the thoughts and impressions of our minds and beyond street sounds and household noises.

Let us hear God in His fullness, and take our quiet delight in the sound of His nearness.

One of the earliest pocketwatches

Pirkheimer / Wikipedia / by permission