silence

I read this today in our church "prayer guide" and really liked it...

"Silence frees us from the need to control others. One reason we can hardly bear to remain silent is that it makes us feel so helpless. We are accustomed to relying upon words to manage and control others. A frantic stream of words flows from us in an attempt to straighten others out. We want so desperately for them to agree with us, to see things our way. We evaluate people, judge people, condemn people. We devour people with our words. Silence is one of the deepest Disciplines of the Spirit simply because it puts the stopper on that." From Freedom of Simplicity by Richard J Foster

I was thinking the other day that I'm going to try harder not to talk about people...i don't think i do it a lot but when i do it makes me feel bad....everyone has their issues and problems and i don't have a right to judge them for that : ) Just being silent is better : )

The music venue meeting went well today....we were minus a member...we had a member down (sorry, sometimes I think in so, i married an axe murder lines)....but we began to write a list of other music venues that we will be competing with.....as of yet, we haven't come up with one that is going to be anywhere near the same realm as us, we are going to incorporate all the arts and there is really nothing like that here. I do believe we are going to need to hire a professional to help us with some of this....i was looking at the business plan after our meeting and holy shit, there is a lot of shit to do, and some of it none of us know how to do....i really do think it is going to help that we are not doing the restaurant, but still, there is tons to do. We are still working on names and i've nearly got the mission statement finished...if it is taking us this long to finish the mission statement, then it will take us 20 years to open up our venue.... : ) We do have a location idea which is really cool...