The Ottawa High School Cytones just left the building. They came today for the Sr. Adults luncheon to do a music program. They, and their director (Laura Underwood), were wonderful. The last song they sang was entitled “We All Need A Silent Night”. The song was new to me, but it spoke of how hectic life becomes around Christmas; how busy we all get; how frazzled our spirits may grow to be.

            And I thought again about how “noisy” our lives become-it’s hard to truly listen and even more difficult to hear. Is it possible for us to carve out any silence into our day-to create space where we can be still and listen. Scripture speaks of “the still small voice” which speaks to us when all other distraction has been diminished.

            We all need some quiet in our days. We need some moments to pull away to a quiet place and simply be with “the Lord”. That’s hard to do when we’re not intentional about creating that opportunity. Years ago I heard a speaker say “One good way to kill a friendship is to say to each other, ‘let’s get together sometime’, because sometime never gets here.” We need to be able to say “let’s get together next Tuesday at 10:30 for a visit” or “let’s visit right here, right now.” The same could be said of a time for silence; time to be alone and still with God. It will not happen unless I make it happen.

            Sometimes, even in the midst of a busy “schedule” or a “hectic day”, Jesus simply disappeared; went off into the hills to be alone; to be still, to center down, to listen, to restore and renew himself, to re-connect with Yahweh. If Jesus, the Lord of the Universe, needed to do that; how can we think we can function in life without that?

We sing of it every Christmas. “Silent night! Holy night! All is calm, all is bright” or “How silently, how silently the wondrous gift is given” or “let all mortal flesh keep silence, and with fear and trembling stand”.

So, I pray for all of us some silence in our days; not just in this Christmas season, but some silence as a part of each day; to “be still” and know that God is God.

And I’ll look forward to seeing you in Church on Sunday.

                        In Christ’s love,

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