“I will be silent in my soul,
Since God has girt me round
With His own Silences, in which
There is no space for Sound.
Only His voice, perchance, may drop
Like dew upon the ground.
“I will be silent, and will lean
Myself into all space.
Love, didst thou think in all this life
That thou couldst touch my face?
Nay, for God bade that I should turn
Unto Himself for space.”
One of the most remarkable incidents in the Gospels is that in which, to a poor woman’s cries for help, Jesus answered not a word. He kept his face turned away, and seemed to treat the suppliant with cold indifference. Yet he was not indifferent. In His heart was warm compassion for her, and in the end He gave her far more than she had asked.
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