Silent Presence

Your silence more powerful than the words I want to hear

Your presence is unknown, but strangely enough I can sense when you’re with me.

I speak and you listen. I cry and you comfort. I laugh and you laugh too.

Sometimes I say and do things that I wish I hadn’t, but you always forgive me.

I can talk for hours. You don’t interrupt. Your patience is more than dreamed of.

You don’t put down

or criticize, you make

me feel better.

And in my silent prayers at night, I know that you’ ll be

there tomorrow.

Amen.

—Sarah Mosher

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