John Ruskin, one of England’s greatest thinkers of the 19th century, once pondered the importance of “rests” in a musical composition.
He began to compare those “rests” put in by a composer to the “rests” that come to us in life; the times, for example, when our lives seem to be put on hold for a while.
The times when, for whatever reason, we are compelled to sit and wait until we realize God is now telling us to move on … out of the wilderness into the promised land God has prepared.
Ruskin wrote: “There is no music in a rest, but there is the making of music in it.”
So as God lets the music of our lives unfold, be pleased with the tune, “rests” and all.
— Adapted from Dreams in the Desert,
compiled by Mrs. Charles E. Cowan