Wednesday, January 12, 2022
Sandy Silver (1937-2021). Sandy Silver, my dear beloved friend and sister in Christ. A brilliant biblical scholar, she was also one of a handful of people I had ever met in my life so infused with the Holy Spirit that she could actually light up a room. Devoid of ego and filled to the brim of her beautiful soul with compassion for all things, she was someone who had an ability to touch others in a way that was transformative. I met Sandy and her husband Steve while living in Scotland 49 years ago. They were newlyweds at the time. Stephen—a self-confessed pot-smoking “Jewish Hippy” 10 years her junior—had, upon first meeting, become instantly besotted with this clear, angelic and enigmatic spiritual sophisticate. Steve converted to Christianity, and the two married within a matter of weeks. Fifty years and three children later. Stephen had become, over time, a highly successful businessman/entrepreneur with homes in Connecticut and Florida. And Sandy remained a foremost biblical scholar. Her Blog and Website on Early Church history is an anthology of Ancient Greek, Roman and detailed Christian scholarship that is both cleverly-written and phenomenally well-researched. Having just turned 84 Sandy was headed for a long life when she fell backward in a shopping mall 3 weeks ago and suffered a cranial hemorrhage sending her into a coma from which she never quite revived. If her life exemplified anything it is that every day is a gift if you live it with love, compassion and the Spirit of Christ in All Things. And her death was not a tragedy but a walkover into a mansion that awaits all people of Faith. For she had already been with God all the days of her life. Goodbye my dear friend. You are living proof that there is Life in loving abundance on both sides of the veil. ~ Robert Joseph Ahola
