The car ride before school can be the quietest church you go to all week.

Sacred moments do not announce themselves with a building. A car in the dark on the way to school, nobody talking, radio low, both of you half awake, is a kind of quiet most people never get anywhere else. It counts because of what it makes possible, not because of where it happens. Shared silence with somebody is a different thing from being alone.

Leave your phone in your bag for one of those rides this week. Say nothing, or say the one real thing you have been meaning to say to whoever is driving. Then let the quiet go back to being quiet.