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Daily reflections for Lenten Easter, written by Oblate Father Ron Rolheiser, OMI.

Almost everything within our world inhibits our journey inward towards stillness and silence. Our culture invites excitement, not silence, activity, not stillness. Thus we find ourselves constantly titillated and overstimulated in our restlessness.

Somehow the impression is out, there that everyone in the whole world is finding something that you are not, that everyone’s life is more full and complete than yours, that your life has as it is, is too small and timid, and that only if you bring many more people, things, places and experiences into your life will you find peace and calm.

The world suggests that the solution to your restlessness lies outside of yourself, in building a bigger and more exciting life.

If you’re lonely, find a friend. If you are restless, do something. If you have a desire, fulfill it. It trivializes our restlessness, inviting us in a thousand ways to forget that God has called us to make an inward pilgrimage.

In the preface to Elizabeth O’Connor’s book, Search for Silence, N. Gordon Cosby writes, the one journey that ultimately matters.

Is the journey into the place of stillness deep within oneself. To reach that place is to be home. To fail to reach it is to be forever restless. This challenge should be written in bold letters in the preface of every spiritual book today. Too much inside of us and around us invites us to forget this. And it’s too dangerous to forget it.

It’s our rest, our peace that’s at stake here.