find almost everyone is talking to someone. As we become unaccustomed to silence, remembering and observing, these new rhythms carry us along. And so, Christians today have a unique challenge to create a harmony between their personal rhythm of encounter with God and today’s communication expectations. Contemplative living needs to happen in the here and now of our existence, not in the world as it existed fifty years ago, or twenty, or even at the turn of the twenty-first century. Contemplation