Sacred Time

Earlier in the month, we reflected on Psalm 62. The psalmist “For God alone my soul waits in silence…” Today, I return to this theme.

In reality, there is so very little silence in our lives. We get the earbuds in. Screens on. The television going. Phones ringing… And we get used to this. We get so used to being entertained, so used to being bombarded with information, so used to the noise around us… that when we get a moment of quiet, we’re often not sure what to do with it. 

I notice myself in a waiting room, or even sometimes in an elevator, looking at my phone… In an elevator! I mean what is that 20 seconds?

One recent study found that subjects would rather give themselves an electric shock than experience boredom for even a few minutes. 

And yet we wonder why we feel so fragmented… So uncentered… 

On this Holy Saturday, as we sit between the cross and the empty tomb, maybe we could take a few moments of silence, to carve out time to sit in God’s presence to allow God’s grace to wash over us.

Let us pray: Holy God, as we embrace a moment of stillness even now, we ask for Your presence to envelop us. In the relative quiet, speak to our hearts…May we grasp again the depths of your love for us, through Jesus the Christ. Amen.