What have I been doing lately? Trying to get back into things, which is proving to be more difficult that I thought. It's like I fell off the planet for a few weeks, found out I really liked it, and am now clawing my way to get back on when I am not so sure I want to. Perhaps I feel that way because today is the first brutal tuesday I will be attending classes on... 7.5 straight hours of them. They are good classes, I know that. They are good prof's, I know that to. But thats a long time, and I am kind of waiting to see how it goes. Not that I can do anything about it if it goes badly, except get used to it.
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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