peacefullove

Sit in Silence February 2, 2009

Good morning friends…I have not blogged in some time…..Well I wanted to share with you ..yesterday at church my husband took me out of my comfort zone and had us sit in a different section of the church….and it was really rough for me at first …we sat in a section where our college students all sit together so I felt weird and told him we should move up one row because I didn’t want to break up their group…so then we were in the rows where our members that are deaf sit….and I love to watch the person that leads them with sign language……altho again I just felt sorta like I was not in the right area …like we were taking up a spot where someone else needed to sit    and I would have gotten up and given them that seat if that were the case….but as my husband pointed out to me ” how can anywhere in church be the wrong seat”…..so as the music played I was just praising God and loving the sounds of the guitars and everyone singing and watching the lady lead in sign language and then it hit me….how “blessed” I was that I could hear those sounds and wondered how it was for the woman in front of me who could not hear?…I felt kinda sad for what she may be missing…..BUT then our worship leader asked us to take a moment of silence and reflect on what the cross has done for us..what God has done for us……and the silence was the most beautiful sound I ever heard……I mean I think there is always noise around me…with children ( boys ) like saturday night we had a birthday party for our son Josh and then 2 of his friends spent the night…WOW..!..my husband retreated upstairs but I stayed and tried to study for my EMS class….then in my job in the ER all the ill patients and monitors going off and people talking on the radios we carry ..then when I volunteer on the  ambulance the sirens….NOISE NOISE NOISE…..( even at bedtime I have a fan on cuz the quiet is just too weird for me ) so needless to say when we sat there in silence I just loved it and have decided to each day try that ……I usually pray out loud to make sure I understand what I am saying to God makes sense…:) lol I know that sounds funny…but I think I will try having silence then quiet prayer……….I have a ceramic plaque thing that sits in my kitchen and it reads… “make time for quiet moments as God whispers and the world is loud”…..how true is that…. Thank you God for allowing me to hear your word and the songs we sing for you but also for the moments of silence…..