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**Quiet Sunday**

I always come in and claim there’s no need to do an episode on Sundays, but then I do one anyway. I wrote a piece for today, but I don’t think it was good, so let’s just sit in contemplative silence for a while instead.

… ten second silence.

That’s enough silence. I ought to sit in it - we all ought, praying and listening, but it’s nigh impossible to make the time and sit without distraction. For years now I’ve vowed and intended to spend more time listening to God, but I don’t. Sundays seem like a good day for it. Sundays are never actually mentioned as a day of worship or prayer in the Bible - not even in the post-Easter books of Acts and the Epistles. ‘The first day of the week’ - as Sunday was known - is mentioned once as a day to do a little admin to set aside donations for the poor, but that’s about the size of it.

It’s too remarkably easy to not pray, or to not read the Bible, or to not meditate on God, even if it’s a stated intention - or, to leave it to last thing at night, when your mind and your focus have gone away. I do very often. Not even the empty days of the pandemic seemed to help with that. Remember the pandemic? What a silly decade this is.

Dear listener, take some time and be still. I could give you five minutes of silence here, but I shan’t. Home-made silence is far more real and sincere than pre-recorded.

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from Ben​-​Them: a Tale of the Christ (2023), released February 22, 2023

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Here you can find their music - solo work, and a Doctor-Who- and-Cheese double-concept concept-album by The Potential Bees (who are a two- or three- person band), which forces both concepts into every song).

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