Happenings 14 March 2019

One of my boys is currently doing a music theory test, and one of the questions  in the test concerns a little piece of musical notation called a 'rest'. In musical notation, the 'rest' is called the symbol of silence. 'Rests' tell the musician is to play nothing. They are very very important little squiggles on the page, because without them the music becomes chaos; notes bleed into other notes, there is an ongoing torrent of sound that lacks definition because there are no boundaries to the music played. One might think that the 'rests' are the least important symbol on the page because they are, by definition, an absence of noise. In reality, they create structure and breathe life into the music. Rest in life serves the same purpose. In our activistic society where even leisure is pursued energetically, rest can sometimes be seen as wasted time. In reality, it was purposed by God ... given as a gift from Him to us ... to create definition in our lives. It is meant to be a boundary that enhances life and endeavour rather than detracting from it. But rest is not only the absence of work ... there can be the spirit of rest that saturates us even in activity, and this is what we are looking at this week as we continue our engagement with the Letter to the Hebrews. Come along!

In Him,
Murray