From our archives…
Quotable: Peggy Noonan
Peggy Noonan has this observation in her Wall Street Journal commentary yesterday:
Earlier this week I heard a minister quote a spiritual genius: “All the problems in the world are caused by man’s inability to sit quietly in a room by himself.” We’re restless and need action, which in a modern media world means information. We need the busy buzz–the Internet, TV, instant messages, magazines and newspapers, the beeps and boops and bops. Rudy’s up in Iowa. Hillary’s stuck. We want to be among the first to have this information and the first to share it. And we want it not because it’s crucial but because it distracts us from the crucial. It takes our minds away from what is most important. Who you are, for instance, or what we are about. It’s a great relief not to think about the important. It’s a relief to focus on factoids. [link]
Patrick Allen noted it on his blog under the title “Lent & the Crucial.”
May the Lord grant us grace this Lent to learn to love times of silence, to nurture times in which we focus on the important, when we tune out every voice and distraction and turn our eyes to the Lord and hear what He is speaking to our hearts.
