{"id":284,"date":"2009-04-03T14:10:27","date_gmt":"2009-04-03T14:10:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/freshliving\/2009\/04\/resent-the-silence.html"},"modified":"2009-04-03T14:10:27","modified_gmt":"2009-04-03T14:10:27","slug":"resent-the-silence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/freshliving\/2009\/04\/resent-the-silence.html","title":{"rendered":"Resent the Silence?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday, I tried really hard to focus on the positive aspect of losing my voice<\/a> and being consigned to silence while I recover my health.  But today, as I re-read the post I thought, “Can I take that back?”  Clearly my grumpy gland is up….<\/p>\n

I guess I won’t rescind my statement that contemplative silence is a profound, spiritual experience that’s hard to achieve in the busy world we travel.  But that’s a chosen silence, a conscious, mindful quiet that’s actively sought and welcomed.<\/p>\n

What I’m struggling with today is the dark side of silence – the voiceless, muted part where I can’t even explain to my doctor’s office what’s wrong.  “My throat….” is all I could croak.  I’m having to cancel fun plans left and right, and I have to do it all electronically because I can’t speak.  Friends and family who call with concern are greeted with…silence.  I have no voice.  And that hurts.<\/p>\n

This too shall pass, I know it shall, but I wanted to share this with you to see if there’s something I’m missing in my feel-sorry-for-myself misery, some other way back to positivity that I can’t see because I’m too mute, blocked, and feverish to think straight.<\/p>\n

Then again, maybe feeling bad is ok when one is, well, feeling bad.  And maybe my voice, which you are reading but not hearing, has a presence that’s bigger than just its out-loud quality.  Thank you, Fresh Living readers, for that – for listening to what I cannot say, what you cannot hear, but what we can share.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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