Our church’s new pastor likes dead space. He’s comfortable with the silence.
Much more comfortable than I am. Like many people – I assume – I don’t much like dead space or silence or quiet.
I like activity. I like doing. I like accomplishing. I like experience. I like, sometimes even, noise.
But why did God create dead space? It was His final act of creation. Not doing anything.
Resting.
Waiting.
Silencing.
He did it to show us how life MUST work.
You and I can’t survive, let alone thrive, in this life if we’re not ever taking time to rest.
Science proves we need sleep.
Psychologists prove we need “a mental break.”
Therapists say we need “a time away.”
God says we need rest.
So maybe not doing is the best thing we could do sometimes.
Maybe silence is necessary to hear the subtle heartbeat of God in our lives.
Maybe solitude reconnects us with ourselves and with our Creator so we’re better for the people we come back to.
Maybe a little dead space in your day isn’t unproductive. Maybe it’s producing some of the greatest fruit in you.