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I have a small question. When I pray and I do not hear anything back, I feel like I am doing something wrong. The lesson said God speaks in the quiet. But the quiet feels like nothing for me. It feels empty.
What do you do? I am asking because I want to learn, not because I am sad. Just honest.
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Not a wrong thing. I sat with the same emptiness for almost a year. What helped: I stopped asking for answers and started just sitting there with nothing to say. The silence stopped feeling empty. It started feeling held.
Hyejin — beautiful question. One thing that helped me: I started writing one sentence at the end of my quiet time. Not what God said. Just what I noticed. After three months I had a quiet little pile of noticings, and looking back it didn’t feel empty anymore.
I light a candle. When the candle is lit, I’m praying. When I blow it out, I’m done. The silence in between stopped scaring me when it had a beginning and an end.