Silence
O God in Zion, to you even silence is praise! - Psalm 65
One of the things that I’m really going to miss in retirement is having what amounts to a private chapel at my disposal. For the last fifteen years I’ve lived in a rectory next door to a church. As churches are mostly empty during the week, and if I’m willing to brave its unheated chilliness during the winters, I can sit in the quiet and enjoy a silence…