Matthew 11:27-30
Jesus Says His Yoke is Easy and His Burden is Light
27 “All things have been committed to me by my Father. No one knows the Son except the Father, and no one knows the Father except the Son and those to whom the Son chooses to reveal him.
28 “Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.”
Luke 5:15-17
Jesus Often Withdrew to Lonely Places and Prayed
15 Yet the news about him spread all the more, so that crowds of people came to hear him and to be healed of their sicknesses. 16 But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed.
17 One day Jesus was teaching, and Pharisees and teachers of the law were sitting there. They had come from every village of Galilee and from Judea and Jerusalem. And the power of the Lord was with Jesus to heal the sick.
John 1:1-5
The Word Became Flesh
1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. 2 He was with God in the beginning. 3 Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made. 4 In him was life, and that life was the light of all mankind. 5 The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not overcome it.
There is more and more noises in this world as it has gotten more modern and industrialized...Some noises that are unpleasant, make me tense...Personally, I need at least some silence place to take a break, from the more noisy places I hear, each day...I need to remove myself from the noise of the day, each and everyday...I meditate daily to get to this silence...But even when I break for the silence, there can be many noises outside and inside...I have anxiety and have a need each day to move out of the noise and soundscapes of the world and listen to the natural sound of silence that God has provided us...While sitting meditating, I have learned that there are not only external noises outside of the mind, but there is as much (and maybe more) internal noise that we create for ourselves and to ourselves in a negative way...So in a way, for me, it is hard to find the silence...But by listening to one's thoughts in silence, one can hear their own deepest and darkest sensations, thoughts, and feelings...By listening in silence to one’s own thoughts there is no where to hide from one's own self...It is like we are sitting down with our own demons...When we are alone with ourselves we are left by ourselves listening to what the mind produces and reacting to in our own personal sensations, thoughts, and emotions...We learn much about ourselves in silence and much about the pattern of our way of thinking in sitting in regular silence...To the anxious and depressed mind thoughts are negative and dark, and often go in the wrong direction...Thoughts can tie the mind up, to a point where the mind gets locked up, and causes the body (the physical body) to get tense in almost any place where the anxiety happens to land...Some of the days I sit in silence, I am relaxed, while other days, while I sit, my body gets tense, depending on what the mind has produced in thought...When I am relaxed, I feel more in harmony with those things around me...But that is what minds do, they produce thoughts and wander...
It is said that Jesus often went off to meditate with God in lonely places...No doubt He heard God in these lonely quiet places...I often think that Jesus was most of the time relaxed, if not all of the time...I believe that Jesus had this great ability in the silence of His meditation and listening to God, to hear the very voice of God...He is able to draw on the power of God to give us rest and heal us...I believe that Jesus had His sensations, His thoughts, His emotions, and the sounds that He heard completely in tune with each other...Since He created all things, He is in harmony with all things and all living things...I believe then that His mind was in harmony with all things...I believe that He has the ability to get His mind, His thoughts, and His heart in complete harmony with nature...I really do not know that He could do this, but I think with Jesus being Divine, He has this intrinsic and innate harmony both inside and out, since all things are made through Him...He is aware of all those things around Him, and is comfortable with all things being made through Him...I think this is how and why He says Come to Me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest...Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I AM gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls...For My yoke is easy and My burden is Light...