Woohoo!! One midterm done, and done well. My Rel 215, Christianity and Community Action, midterm went excellent. Our teacher had given us a list of twelve essay questions to study from, telling us two would appear on the exam, and explicitly saying that we would NOT have a choice. Today, before he handed out the exam, he said "don't be nervous, there is always grace and mercy." And he handed out an exam with 4 questions, and we could choose two. Not only that, but two of the questions I was most prepared for were on the exam. So it was sweet. 3 more to go.
A Pastor's Word: Silence
Silence. I think of the servant watching Rebekah intently, waiting to see if his mission is a success. I think of the darkness of the ninth plague; I wonder if there was silence. I think of the Canaanite woman crying for help and Jesus not saying a word. I think of the disciples in the storm as they find that Jesus is asleep. Were they speechless? I think of Jesus in the Garden, his friends all asleep, his prayers rising as his sweat falls. Or the three hours of darkness while Jesus hung on the cross. Was there silence then? I think of the silences I have experienced. The brief pause, the in-drawn breathe, that stretches into an imaginary eternity, when I asked the woman I love to marry me and she had yet to answer. That moment of silence before our baby cried for the first time. The first rays of sun hitting the side of the mountain, when I realized I couldn't hear the highway anymore. The pause in the wind...
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