Month: February 2022

“If you remain silent at this time, [the truth] will arise from another place…And who knows but that you have [been given this platform] for such a time as this?” (Esther 4:13–14, NIV 1984).

And in the naked light I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing [blogs that the readers may not care]
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence.

Fools, said I, you do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
[Read my blogs] that I might reach you
But my words, like silent raindrops fell
And echoed in the wells of silence.

— Sounds of Silence, Lyrics by Paul Simon

My Musings – I don’t know which is worse, people remaining silent when they should speak up, or people speaking up when they should remain silent.  “Social” media…