In the Silence of God — The God Who Listens

I’d entered this quiet space to pray. Burdened, heartbroken, I sought answers for a loved one in deep pain.

I waited.
I listened.
All I heard was silence.

No answers.
No clarity.
Just . . . stillness.

After several tear-filled moments, I began to sense something. A quiet presence. Not the absence of God, but something more mysterious: God’s presence in the silence.

I pondered:

What if the silence wasn’t empty, but full—full of sacred cries too deep for words?
What if the silence was God’s answer?
Not a solution. An invitation—to rest in the presence of the One who listens more deeply than words can reach.
What if God was listening—not just to me, but to my loved one?

In that quiet moment, the words that follow rose in my heart—not written so much as received.

I shared them with my loved one, and now I share them with you, in hopes you too might feel the nearness of the God who listens.

In the Silence of God—
The God Who Listens

When the world crashes louder
than your voice can cry
and your soul curls inward
under the weight of too much,

there is a silence
not made of absence—
but of presence too deep for sound.

It waits.

It does not demand belief
or strength
or hope.

It only asks:
Will you sit awhile here with me?

Not to fix.
Not to rise.

But to rest
your trembling spirit
in the arms
of the God who does not speak,
but listens.

Rest is not giving up.
Rest is remembering
that even your breath
is prayer.

That tears are holy.
That you don’t have to
stop the sky from falling.

And though answers may not come,
you are held.

Held in this moment.
Held by your breath.

Held by the quiet hands of God
who holds you in his divine embrace
cupping each of your tears
in the depths of his loving heart.

-brian j plachta

The words were a balm for my soul. They were a deeper call, an invitation to trust that even in the silence, God is near. Here in the silence. Listening.

Sometimes the silence isn’t where God is missing—it’s where God is most tenderly listening.
Sometimes life breaks our hearts faster than we can heal.

And in that space, our only task is not to drown—
but to rest, breath by breath,
in the silence of God.

– brian j. plachta
brianplachta.com

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