Mtr Kelli Joyce

“For God alone my soul in silence waits; *
from him comes my salvation.”

Dear friends,

I do not like silence. As a general rule, it makes me anxious, and so I find myself fidgety and unsettled. I was always a student who wanted at least a little background music on as I did my schoolwork - not to distract me, but to help me focus.

So I really have no idea what led me, during my first semester in seminary, to sign up for a “Saturday quiet day” group retreat. But I did. I did, and the verse around which our facilitator structured our time was this opening verse from Psalm 62: “for God alone my soul in silence waits.”

I learned, that day, that silence of noise is only a tool, designed to help us find moments of silence for our soul. Silence, rather than being sterile or overwhelmingly vast and impersonal, is the fertile ground where the most loving and intimate encounters between our souls and God can begin to grow.

Whether being in auditory silence comes naturally to you or not, today I invite you to take some time to quiet your heart and mind, and let your soul wait in silence, so that God might speak, and you might hear.

In peace,
Mtr. Kelli