Each month, a member of the board will share a reflection on the Soul Matters monthly theme and the state of the church. The theme for December is Stillness. This month’s post is offered by Cathy Bujold.
We seem to be in a season of stark contrasts.
On the one hand, there is so much silence. My husband Dan and I spent a quiet Thanksgiving without extended family – without my parents, without our children and grandchildren. Our church building, built to allow us to gather together and to sing together, is instead silent for the most part. And then of course there is the silence of those whose lives have been snuffed out by the pandemic . . . and the silent toll this pandemic is taking on all of us . . . Too much silence.
And at the same time, there is so much noise. The cacophony of the election and its aftermath. Jarring social media posts. Incessant clamoring of competing points of view. The dissonant diatribes of a divided nation . . . Too much noise.
Last Sunday during worship Lois Saunders selected the poem “To Worship” by Jacob Trapp which was read by Gary Charles. There was a line in that poem that particularly stood out for me. “To worship is to listen in the face of the storm to the still small voice inside.” Continue reading →