What we risk when we raise a generation that never learns to be bored

When Children Never Experience Stillness

In my recent reflection on what silence did to my brain, I described stillness as sacred. As a kind of diving. When we’re uninterrupted, we can descend deeper and deeper into clarity, into calm, into God. But I’ve been thinking—what happens if we never get the chance to dive at all?

What happens when that silence never comes?

And more urgently—what happens to our children, who are growing up in a world that never stops buzzing?

We don’t talk enough about this.