Unresting

Sunday in worship we sang the hymn “Immortal, Invisible, God Only Wise.”  I’ve sung it many times, but words in the second stanza stuck out in my mind all throughout the day.  They describe God as “Unresting, unhasting, and silent as light.” 

I’ve never thought of light as silent, yet it is.  The sun rises and light comes upon the scene with no fanfare, no fireworks, no sound at all, yet something amazing has taken place.  I turn on my kitchen light in a totally dark apartment.  No sound occurs, no applause, no trumpets blaring, but everything looks so much better.  I can find my way around, not step on any cat toys or cats, and I feel safer. 

Kathy in my Sabbath Pause small group said she felt there were many, truly holy moments with God in the OR where she works.  God was and is present.  Silently there.  No one shouts out, “Hey! God is here!”  Yet God is there silently, unhasting and unresting, silent as light.

What a beautiful picture.  Thank you to Walter Chalmers Smith for writing these words between 1824 - 1908 that gave me a Sabbath Pause to consider my “silent as light” God.

Thank you, Dave Kelly, for sharing this beautiful picture of a sunrise that you captured.