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The Three Important “F’s” in My Life – Faith, Family, and Friends

In his early twenties, American author Henry David Thoreau, spent two years living in a little cabin which he had built for himself on the shores of Walden Pond, near Concord, Massachusetts.  As well as maintaining his family and many friendships, he very much embraced silence and solitude and as he wrote in his journal in 1853, ‘I wish to hear the silence of the night, for the silence is something positive and to be heard.’

In another thought-provoking entry, he wrote that in any great space for conversation, ‘there should be a certain degree of silence surrounding you.’   He believed that silence was not an aesthetic experience – it was a singular mode of inhabiting one’s own thoughts and conversing with the world.   Oh, to have that luxury today in our own lives!

Eight years later, he published a book of essays describing his experiences of living in his little cabin.   He entitled the book Walden. Being a man of great perception, it is full of beautiful insights on life and loving.

Praise the Lord

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