Silent Saturday

Silent Saturday trains us in the liminal. Can we make space for a pain that doesn’t immediately resolve?

How does the silence of God form us? What do we hear in the silence?

Sometimes it is our grief that is the most sacred sound.

– Cole Arthur Riley
Excerpted from Black Liturgies: Prayers,
Poems and Meditations for Staying Human
Penguin Random House, 2024

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• Within the Mystery, a Strange and Empty State of Suspension
• Tomb Time
• When Love Entered Hell
• A Season of Listening
• Eckhart Tolle on Silence and Stillness
• To Be Still
• Opening to Love
• Trusting the Flow
• The Beauty and Challenge of Being Present in the Moment
• Today I Will Be Still
• Cultivating Stillness
• A Sacred Pause
• Resting in the Presence of the Beloved
• Active Waiting: A Radical Attitude Toward Life
• And What of Resurrection?

Image: Michael J. Bayly (Wood Lake, Richfield, MN).