I love that the phrase “quiet isn’t always peace” is a mantra I use. It’s so true. It’s not always quiet. Sometimes it’s loud and chaotic. It’s not always quiet. Sometimes people yell and scream and get on each other’s nerves. Sometimes people are mean and rude and we just can’t stand for it anymore. Sometimes we get angry and just want to scream and scream at someone who is mean and rude.
At times, quiet is peace. At times not quiet. At times I want to smack it around, but it gets easier to just not be there. At times it’s just not peaceful. At times I feel like I’m walking on a razor-sharp line. At times it feels like I’m walking on the edge of a knife. At times it feels like I’m floating. At times it feels like a rollercoaster.
I feel like the phrase “quiet is peace” is a bit of a misnomer. I’m not talking about the quiet that a person experiences when they are not talking to anyone. I’m talking about the quiet that people experience while they are talking to each other. And while I don’t think “quiet” is a dirty word, I think “peace” is just a better word.
For example, I go to a lot of coffee shops and I have a certain amount of peace. This is where I go to get my work done, where I get to do my shopping, and get to hang out with my friends. But I also go to a lot of churches, and I have a certain amount of peace there too. This is where I go to pray and get to spend time with God.
This is also where I go to have my quiet time with my kids, where I can concentrate on my prayers and my kids instead of the world. This is also where I go to pray and spend time with God. Peace is not just a feeling, but a state of being.
Peace, in a world of chaos, is an illusion. I think a lot of it is because we don’t think about it. We are so busy watching the world go by that we don’t really care about what happens in our little corner of it. The only peace that I have is when my kids are asleep and I am having fun with my friends.
I really like how quiet it is when I pray with my family. I feel as though I am in the middle of a peaceful ceremony with my husband and my little girl. A little background on me: I have a brother who is a pastor. A lot of his sermons are about how to live life without distractions.
If anything, many people find it difficult to quiet down in quiet times. I think it’s a choice we all make on some level. For some, it’s possible to be a slave to their phones or TV or other electronics and not have the ability to be in our own head. But I also know that my ability to do that has been lost. In my own quiet moments, I’m in a space of quiet contemplation with my family. I can’t get lost in my own mind.
There are many different levels of quiet. I find it difficult to be always in the middle of everything, especially when im with my family. I’m trying to become more conscious of that. I want to be in a space of mind where I can be quiet, but not in the manner that I have been my entire life. I want to be in a space where I can be quiet and still.
That’s a good way to put it, which is why I think it’s great that you’re able to be in a space of quiet contemplation with your family. That’s an important quality for the quiet that so many people take for granted.
