by Mindy von Atzigen
Be still and know that I am God. I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth. Psalm 46:10 (NIV)
I don’t have much to show for my two years of German in high school. I know how to count to ten and how to sing “I’m a foreigner, and I don’t speak German very well” to the tune of “She’ll Be Coming Around the Mountain,” neither of which are all that helpful. However, I do have a random German phrase stuck in my head. I can say, “Sprechen in die pausen nachs,” which means, “Speak in the pauses.” You see, our teacher used to play a cassette tape with a woman speaking German sentences. After each sentence, the woman on the tape would instruct us to “Sprechen in die pausen nachs,” and we were then supposed to repeat her sentence. I apparently didn’t learn the other sentences, but I can tell someone really well to “Speak in the pauses.”
Maybe that’s a sentence for you today. Has your calendar, your schedule, your life been so full that there hasn’t been time for you to hear God speak to your heart? As humans, we have an uncanny ability to fill our time with so much “stuff” that the most important things can be neglected. Take a moment today to pause and reflect. Take several of them, in fact. And with every one of them, quiet your heart and ask God to speak in the pauses.
