Interrupting the Silence

Interrupting the Silence is a place for spiritual reflection, guidance, and growth.
It offers practical spirituality grounded in the contemplative tradition.

  • Unless … – A Sermon On John 12:20-33

    Unless … – A Sermon On John 12:20-33

    I don’t know if “unlesses” is a real word but I am using it as a noun and the plural of unless.  We all have our “unlesses.” They’re about how and what we see. They are the restrictions, limitations, and conditions that shape and inform our relationships and understanding of each other, Jesus, and ourselves.… Read more

  • Confessing

    Confessing

    What on earth were you thinking Mike? Why would you do that? What an idiot. There it was again, that familiar inner voice. At one time those words, that voice, were about what I had done. Now they were about having scheduled an appointment with Fr. Kelly to confess what I had done. Those words, Read more

  • Lifting Up Our Contradictions – A Sermon On John 3:14-21

    Lifting Up Our Contradictions – A Sermon On John 3:14-21

    Some of the funniest and most terrifying aspects of my life are my self-contradictions – the contradictions with which I live, the contradictions that live within me. My wife would probably say they are more aggravating and frustrating than funny. Most days my life is a living contradiction between what I say and what I… Read more

  • Cleaning Out And Enlarging Life – A Sermon On John 2:13-22

    Cleaning Out And Enlarging Life – A Sermon On John 2:13-22

    I think business as usual is the issue. The animals and money changers are not the problem. They are the symptom that something else is going on. I think Jesus went to the temple that day for one purpose and with one intention; to throw out and overturn business as usual. There are times when… Read more

  • The Most Important Day Of Your Life – A Sermon On Mark 1:9-15

    The Most Important Day Of Your Life – A Sermon On Mark 1:9-15

    In some ways the past year has felt like a long never ending season of Lent. It has been a time of fasting, self-denial, and giving up; a time when people and things have been lost or taken from us; a time that is continually pointing to our mortality and the fragility of life. What… Read more

  • Life In The Deserted Place – A Sermon On Mark 1:29-39

    Life In The Deserted Place – A Sermon On Mark 1:29-39

    Jesus got up early, while it was still very dark, and left the security of the house to go to this deserted place, this wilderness place. My guess is that nobody wants to go to that place and yet we’ve all been there. I wonder what your deserted place is today. What parts of your… Read more

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My name is Mike Marsh. I am a priest of the Episcopal Church. I retired from active parish ministry in 2025 after serving twenty-two years in The Episcopal Diocese of West Texas.

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