Silence is Golden
Today I made the girls go out to the park with me today for a walk. They were not totally interested, but I thought it was a good idea! Fresh air makes everything seem a little bit better! I took the sled and promised (bribed them) that I would pull them around. We started at the nature center and looked at the animals there, and then we headed out on the board walk. I was pulling them through the snow, while they looked for animal tracks. We saw deer tracks, rabbit tracks, and even (what we thought were) fox tracks! While we were walked, I would stop here and there to look around. What I noticed when we stopped was that girls couldn’t seem to be still. Hmmm….so I made a point to ask them for silence. It was hard, but when they were still, we could hear the birds, the wind moving through the grasses, and our own cold breath. What a great thing to take time to do. I realized that we hadn’t done that in a long time. It has been a long time since I took time to be silent with my girls. Especially when that time is out surrounded by the gifts God created for us to enjoy!
Silence is Golden! How do you cultivate and embrace silence in your family?
January 19, 2014 @ 4:03 am
Silence? It is cultivated daily…. at bedtime! 🙂 Unfortunately, silence is not something that happens often at our house! Even when the kids are trying to be quiet, they just…. aren’t. I love the pictures of the nature center trip – we have one in our area that my oldest was just asking to go to the other day. We haven’t been in a while, so we are about due for a trip ourselves!
January 20, 2014 @ 2:02 am
We love our nature center and it really had been a while since we had been to ours too! The girls had fun! I hear you on the not quite when quite thing! That happens here all the time!