Sometimes, silence is golden. Other times, it’s terrifying: someone we love breathes their last and the silence suddenly stretches to eternity…
It feels a bit like that with STL UK. We all know that STL as we once knew it is finished. We also know that deals have been done behind closed doors: we watch and wait for a crack to appear, for a little light to shine from those doorways, for STL to live up to its name … but that was the old name, before Biblica. Strange, how these things haunt us…
We hear rumours and rumours of rumours. Buyers for Authentic, Wesley Owen, STL… or not… people get uppity: stop speculating, they say, it’s dangerous!
But the way to prevent rumours and speculation, of course, is with truth and facts, with honesty and openness. That, however, is also dangerous: it makes us vulnerable … imagine, if you can, the most powerful person in the universe … let’s say God … making himself vulnerable … daring to enter our world, to trust human beings to take care of him. No: such a thing would never work: they’d just crucify him…
No. Openness is far too dangerous. We need secrecy. We need silence.
Shush, now, baby’s sleeping…
