MoSSS (Minutes of Shared Sacred Silence)

As many of you know, I love silence. I look forward to a silent spiritual renewal retreat with the same enthusiasm as a sports fan with tickets to the Super Bowl!! Go team silence!

And yet, as we know all too well, it can be tough to find time to step away from the responsibilities of everyday life and claim that special "set apart time" for a silent retreat.

So, I wonder...is it possible to bring a bit of that sweet silence home and weave it into the activities of our daily lives?

A practice that I have found incredibly helpful is taking random minutes of sacred silence right in the middle of the busy-ness of my daily life. A deep breath and just one minute of silence can help pull me back from the edge of chaos - reminding me that God's peace is always present within me no matter what is swirling around me.

One minute of silence reminds me that I am standing on holy ground... both in the spaces of immense beauty and in the moments of immense stress.

Incredibly, it is all holy ground... the traffic jam, flower garden, emergency room, forest glen, courtroom, chapel... all of it!

Because I love sharing these minutes of sacred silence with you, I have created a special YouTube playlist that I am calling, "Minutes of Shared Sacred Silence (MoSSS)" - soft space to land gently for a moment in the midst of our busy lives.

I will continue sharing MoSSS with you via social media as I have been, but hopefully this playlist will make it easy to find all these short videos gathered together in one place. You might especially enjoy the collection of MoSSS from the recent Total Solar Eclipse Retreat in Spain recorded between July 31 and August 12.

I'd love to know how you are weaving MoSSS into your daily life.

How are minutes of shared sacred silence helping you create a bit of soft space to land gently for just a moment right in the middle of your daily life?

In the wise words of Ram Dass,

"The quieter you become, the more you can hear."