From time to time I write about James Carse's book, The Silence of God, as a modern spiritual classic. Carse offers a powerful argument that God's silence is a kind of presence that is waiting for us to speak and act.
Those who do no accept the idea of God will find this puzzling or wrong. Those who believe that God is constantly speaking will also find it simply wrong.
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the silence of God and faith" »
In 1960, I owned a VW Beetle. In 1965 I bought another one. When I bought the first one, in Austin, Texas, I asked the salesman, “Are these things safe?”
He smiled. “The great thing about these cars is that when you hit something, the doors fly open, and you fly out.”
“And you land on a haystack?” I asked.
The salesman just grinned. He was sticking to his story.
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A friend of mine, an excellent golfer, invited me over a few weeks back to talk about learning golf. I am retired now and have no excuse for not finally tackling the game. This was Bisbee, Arizona, a town we lived in for 10 years not so long ago. We were visiting from North Carolina for a couple of months.
So one afternoon around 4 PM, I show up at his house and we begin.
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