When I think of the holiday's, I very rarely get to experience a "Silent Night". Yet, it was in silence that Elijah experienced God. In 1 Kings 19, Elijah does not find God in a windstorm, an earthquake, or a fire. Rather, Elijah finds God in the "gentle whisper". Sometimes we don't do a good job of stepping out of the chaos in our lives to open ourselves to hear the soft voice of God. We want instead to find the power and might. We need to step back and remember that God may not speak to us through the sledgehammer but might be trying to get to us through the gentle whisper. I think that's what happened at the Christmas truce of 1914. Read and see if you think God works in similar ways today. I think God does and we need only to step back from the chaos and listen for the gentle whisper.