In this week's episode of Henri Nouwen, Now & Then, New York Times best-selling author Brian D. McLarengrapples with the issues that have prompted the doubters, the disappointed, and the disillusioned to ask Do I Stay Christian?
Solitude and silence can never be separated from the call to unceasing prayer. If solitude were primarily an escape from a busy joy, and silence primarily an escape from a noisy milieu, they could easily become very self-centered forms of asceticism. But solitude and silence are for prayer. The Desert Fathers did not think of solitude as being alone, but as being alone with God. They did not think of silence as not speaking but as listening to God. Solitude and silence are the context within which prayer is practiced.
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