Silence and boredem before God

I ended the past catechesis by saying that silence is not empty, but that it is filled with something other than the noise of the world. Let’s look at this aspect of silence. We are in a hurry, and we still have the urge to do something. Going weekend, free time, how to make the most of this time? I need to visit my parents, make things around the house, go with the kids for a match, go to the parish job, I want to help a friend, there is a barbecue, I would like to shut down and go on a bike myself. What else? And this will also become a slave day.

Therefore, it is necessary to learn not to do anything. We know the classic story about a man who came to the wise man and asked him what to do to make him happy. He said to him, “When you sit, sit, when you walk so walk and when you run, so run.” “No, when you sit, you want to walk, when you walk, you want to run, and if you run, you would sit.”

We still have the urge to do something; Therefore, it is necessary to learn to stop and sometimes do nothing. Indulge yourself in the luxury of not having to do anything now. But beware! We have no problem doing nothing. We can sit passively in front of the TV and switch TV channels. We can sit down to wine and have a debate on the immortality of a cornflower, we can go sports and constantly rush to have to overcome this mortgage, we can go for a coffee and discuss other people. This is not yet a silence. This is a time-consuming activity. Most people live in these extremes – performance and then fun as a reset. Of course, I do not want to say that these things are bad. It is possible to spend full time and build relationships with football, wine or coffee. But now our topic is silence, and this is more than a rest in these activities.

Someone once told me that it was important to learn to be bored before God. I don’t know what he meant exactly, but I like the statement. To be just not thinking about anything, just being carried away by the presence of God. To realize the beauty that surrounds me, to enjoy the good that I experience, to long for bliss, which it prepares for me. It is a state where I elevate myself, my being above all earthly problems, and marvel at the omnipotence of God. It is a time when I let something beautiful to come to pass – the touch of God in His Word, in the sacraments, in the celebration of the liturgy, in the goodness of others. It is perhaps a return to childhood, when we played with something and experienced something during the game. It is what the catechesis of a good shepherd seeks. The story is told to the children – some truth about God, it shows up in the characters, and then the children have time to play with the characters. During that game they can reflect, reflect, marvel, live. They have time to digest that truth so that it can be firmly held in their hearts.

That is exactly the essence. They have time to spend a given impulse, a given truth. Then it can touch them, reach out, take root in them. We are often in a hurry and drive our children to perform. As much as possible to employ a child to develop, but especially to have time to do wrong. Because when he is bored, he just makes up. But this is how the child becomes just a consumer of entertainment – here I am, program me, entertain me. And it also becomes just a hurried slave who runs from one activity to another and has no time to work things out.

We don’t even have to worry if we find ourselves playing something. Often fathers feel ashamed when their wife finds themselves playing with children and the children are not even playing anymore, only they are still there. But is it not a manifestation of our desire to let things fade in us?

So we are invited to create time in our lives for them to be able to ripen things in us as well as allow others to ripen things in them.

How to achieve it? The first step is desire. When we really want something, we can find the space.

The second step is to take advantage of the opportunities that come to us – a trip to a traffic jam or a business trip can be accomplished by getting angry with drivers, watching time nervously, listening to the radio, or thinking about something. Waiting time at the doctor, the connections can also be used. In sports – running, cycling, uphill – I can concentrate on performance, listen to music, or get carried away to the Lord. A time of rocking children, when we would like to run away and do what … What is extremely valuable is the time of sleeping and waking up. At that time we are usually quiet. Then it is probably easiest to be carried away by pleasant thoughts. Then there is an opportunity to pursue your dreams, desires. Unfortunately, we are also tempted to sin at the moment. That is, evil gives us thoughts of sinful enjoyment in the purity of purity. But this time can also be used to elevate the mind to God. By this time, the defensive mechanisms are already falling, the person ceases to control and here comes what he carries in his mind. If there is a God in my mind, then naturally my thoughts are directed towards him at the moment. So here is about it