To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization. – Harriet Beecher Stowe
Some days are neither happy nor sad. In those days, our eyes are not filled with tears nor our hearts filled with too much happiness. We are not fighting a battle. We are not facing a storm.
In those days, it seems all we could do is wait and let time pass us by. We do our chores, we show up, we carry on even though we feel whatever it is that we do won’t make a big difference at all.
But even in a song, we must remember that beyond the low and the high notes, there are spaces of silence in between. Spaces to take a deep breath until we can raise our voice again, until it is time to sing.
Many times, what truly makes a difference in our lives are the many spaces in between, spaces of waiting and of being faithful to the work at hand. Days such as these when we silently go about our lives, holding on to memories of joy, to hopes of dreams yet to come, and to the love that gives us strength to carry on.
…a time to tear,
and a time to sew;
a time to keep silence,
and a time to speak;
a time to love,
and a time to hate;
a time for war,
and a time for peace.
-Ecclesiastes 3, WEBBE
This Is The Great Pause In Between
This is the great pause in between work and play
the great silence between a song, and another song
This is Selah, this is s p a c e
This is the point at which the earth neither slumbers nor wakes up
This is the great pause in between crying and laughing
between getting sick and getting well again
This is the time of waiting
without expecting for something soon to come
This is the space between heartbeats
between a heartbreak and a new-found love
This moment is silence
but this is not worth nothing
Everything is stored in this very moment
where everything else proceeds,
and where every great dream is born.
Check Jocelyn's books:
"Of Waves and Butterflies: Poems on Grief", "Mend My Broken Heart", "Questions to God", "To Love an Invisible God", "Defending My Catholic Faith", and more - click here.
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