Many of us
make resolutions on the first day of the New Year.
Some are
sincerely followed. Some are easily broken. Nobody else cares about our own
resolutions anyway.
This year I
am going to make a single resolution. There is no long list.
There is
just this one resolution.
It is not an
original idea. It was posted by a friend on Facebook. I shared it on my
timeline for a while hoping that I would be able to follow it too. The words
were simple and profound. Something stirred inside me. Just like Moses would
have felt when he saw the Ten Commandments on the tablet for the first time.
The Facebook
post said:
‘Open your
mouth only if what you have to say is more beautiful than the silence.’
The silence
already exists.
It is
beautiful.
When I speak
I am going to break it.
If I am
breaking it, I should create something more beautiful.
Wow... this
is challenging.
It makes me
weigh every word before I utter it. It makes me judge every thought before I
express it.
It might
make me seem rude, boring, stupid, stuck-up, etc. To other people.
However,
life is not about other people and us. It is all about God and us.
God has
created silence and He has created us.
If I create
anything beautiful with words, I will speak.
Other things
I would rather keep to myself.
Dear
Readers, this is not going to be easy. I will update this blog regularly and
keep you updated on how my experiment with silence is coming along.
