they became even more quiet

Paul the Least speaks of a kind that surpasses comprehension. Tykes' song speaks of it flowing like the Nile. Ranks third in the listing of fruits in Gal6. My concordance gives me some 353 refs of it in the Word. Been walking for over a decade now, and I wonder whether or not I've ever known it fully.

When walking with Him, when one-on-one, nothing else matters, nothing else comes to thought. So there with Him, there it is. But true peace can't be limited to just before the throne, can it? It must exist outside the realm of Heaven, resting in those recesses of heart and mind where the emptiness used to be.

Wonderful to have experienced it even briefly, this cessation of noise, this quiet, this emptiness different from the one that pains, but an emptiness that takes your head to the quiet waters, to stillness.