There is so much chatter. It would be easy for me to lapse into old and cranky mode --these kids today! with their Facebook and their Twitter and their cellphones and their googling! can't they just be quiet like we were in the good old days? and also get off my lawn?
But even if I didn't have accounts with Facebook and Twitter and a serious Google habit, I would have to admit that it's hypocritical for me to grouse about chattering college kids. There's always been chatter. In college I didn't talk on my cellphone while I walked from class to apartment, but there were usually elaborate imaginary conversations playing in my head. Real silence is rare.
That's the piece of today's antiphon that struck me: the silence of the kings. When the Lord comes even the mighty will hold their tongues -- even in our culture of noise we will marvel in hushed awe. Quiet me.
you who are standing as a banner for the peoples,
you before whom kings will clap shut their mouths,
you whom the nations will entreat:
Come to free us now -- do not delay.
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