Silence

Pure, clean, and holy.
There is wind rustling in the leaves
and birds in the air singing.
Although there are sounds there is silence.
It is like the river.
Never for a moment does it cease to flow,
and yet for all times it is still.
It is with itself in perfect harmony.
Silence and stillness are not the
absence of sounds or of movements.
They are the products of acceptance
of nature as God planned it.
They are the absence of
fear and of worry and of strife.
They are what you find when at peace.
Silence.

John Schaff lives in Bismarck, North Dakota, and he has no intention of ever leaving. It gets cold in the winters and hot in the summers, but he is near his family and all of his loved ones, and he is never more at peace than when staring at the vast seas of grass and grain found in the prairies of the north.