seeking my silence

Mike Yaconelli once wrote:
"A clearing is a place of shelter, peace, rest, safety, quiet and healing. It is a place where you get your bearings, re-group inspect the damage, fill out the estimate and make the repairs. Its the place where the mid-course corrections are made, where you can change course, or even start over. A clearing is a place where you can see what you couldn't see and hear what you couldn't hear.
clearings are not optional. They are longings in disguise. They are required rest stops of life when our exhausted souls run out of steam. A clearing is the only place left to go when the madness of our lives has left our souls, dying, hungering, gasping for oxygen, and nourishment. If we don't seek the clearings, then we will be brought to them forcibly in form of a heart attack, illness, break down, anxiety attack, depression or loneliness. I am beginning to believe that life is not a search for existence, but rather a search for a few clearings in the midst of the jungle."

In silence, i realized that a clearing was just what i needed. As much as I wanted to run from it, I realized that Mr. Yaconelli was right, a clearing is not optional, if i hadn't found it, it would have found me.

So what did I learn from my time of silence?

1.) Things i can't express.
2.) Things I can't put into words.
3.) Things that feel a lot like healing.

i felt God's love.