December 7, 2025

The Silent Word

“The Silent Word” An Advent Reflection based on Luke 1:5-25;57-80 delivered by the Rev. Alison Andrea Young on the Second Sunday in Advent, December 7, 2025 at the First Congregational UCC of Onekama, Michigan.

There is, of course, in our culture a disconnect between what is our experience of silence and what could be called “sheer silence” that is the kind of silence described in the story of Elijah, hiding at the mouth of a cave in 1 Kings 19. It is the one time that silence is mentioned when talking about the Prophets! Here in our morning’s scripture we have Zechariah struck with silence until the birth of his son . . .