Silent Night

Sophia just recieved a book from her Sunday School teacher that has the words to Silent Night in it.... So far this Christmas Season, we have focused on learning Away in a Manger, Jingle Bells, and Come on Ring Those Bells. But the Silent Night book has her singing phrases of it in strange order on her own as she sings to her dolls. It struck me as I read it to her how little silence we all have in our lives. The phones ring, the TV is on, music is playing all around us. There is so much to do that we rarely take time for silence, with presents to wrap and cookies to bake and cards to get out and trees to decorate... Do we stop for silence in the midst of all this? Do we stop to appreciate, to wonder? It is so easy to get caught up in the do do do, hurry hurry hurry, mindset of the holiday season. Have we lost the silence of that Silent Night? How can we capture even a moment of silence each day?