TUESDAY, July 28

I became a single parent when my youngest was two years old. I remarried when he was in college. The time between was filled with my children's activities. The television, the movies, the music, the books, the sports, the projects--all revolved around my children. While my husband recalls the pop culture of the 1980s, when he was in law school, I only remember that Miss Piggy loved Kermit.

Yet I vividly recall driving to church on Sunday mornings all those years. Cars were filled with people going to church. Whether it was families or couples, I would notice the two adults--expressionless faces looking forward without speaking. Because I longed for an adult conversation, I imagined all the things I would discuss with another rather than ride in silence. But now that I have been married for a long time, I know there is a comfortable silence, one that comes from knowing and loving a person so much that words don't have to be spoken continuously.

God feels that way about us. He relishes the time that we take to sit with him in comfortable silence, letting our soul connect with him.

PRAY for the Diocese of Kitgum (Uganda)

Ps 61 * 68; 2 Samuel 3:6-21;  Acts 16:6-15; Mark 6:30-46

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