Faith@First - December 5, 2025
One of the quiet joys of parenting is watching your children sleep. Long after the toys are scattered and the dishes are still waiting, there is a holy kind of stillness that settles over the house. In that silence, you begin to notice things you somehow miss in the noise of the day—the surprising length of their eyelashes, the gentle curl of their lips, the steady rise and fall of their breath. You are struck again by the miracle of their simply being alive.
Silence has a way of sharpening our vision. It slows us down enough to see what has been true all along but overlooked in the rush. It opens the door to wonder. In the hush of a dimly lit room, you remember, this is sacred. This is gift. And if silence can help us see our own children more clearly, how much more can it help us see God?
This week, as we continue our Advent series Wonder, we turn to a man who learned the language of silence in a most unexpected way—Zachariah. His story begins with disbelief and muteness, but it unfolds into revelation, renewal, and awe. In the quiet, God was doing deep work in him, reshaping his heart to receive the miracle that was coming.
As we enter this season, perhaps God is inviting us into a similar stillness. A silence that isn’t punishment but preparation. A quiet that positions us to notice, to understand, and to behold the wonder of what God is bringing to life in us.
I pray you will join us in worship this Sunday and that sometime this week, you too would sit silently in the presence of God and wonder.
Keep the Faith@First,
Pastor Nicole
