BE STILL
- Dec 12, 2017
- 3 min read
Frederick Buechner says "Silence, Cant be anything but silent, Quiet however chooses to be silent. It holds its breath to listen. It waits and is still."
To be quiet is to find your strength from HIM alone. Psalm 46:10 calls us "to be still and know I am God." In Hebrew that translates to rapha which in other words means letting ourselves go or to become weak. And this is what I needed to do so badly this week. I was having one of those weeks where if it could go wrong, it did! On top of the normal stresses of life ( finances, school, parenting etc..) It seemed as though one thing after another was dragging me down. My daughter threw my laptop, someone hit our car window and shattered it, I was audited at school, I spilled screen printing ink all over myself, my kids were fighting and oh my coffee went cold. ( you know, THAT kind of day). It wasn't huge life changing stuff either. We have a warranty, we needed some air conditioning, I'm not in any trouble, ink washes off, kids are kids and its just coffee. But in those moments it seemed like I was going to fall apart. And thats sort of just what I did. I came home after that long day and I just sat in the shower in silence. I knew that I just needed to "be still". To stop stressing and let God take care of it. I got so wrapped up in the moment I forgot who was in charge. Last year I got the words "be still" (harpoo) tattooed on my wrist as a reminder to myself to just stop and listen and let go. I need to remember to become weak because HE is strong. As soon as I did that I could literally feel the weight lifted off my shoulders. I began to feel a peace inside that only He could give. I know I am not alone when it comes to these moments of "strength" as I will call it.. strength that I can do it alone and its all about me. We all have those moments and I hope this blog helps you to feel "weak" when you need it too. - 2011
The paragraph above is something I wrote back in 2011 on an old blog of mine. I came across it this week and it is something that I STILL needed to hear, to read and to KNOW! We can often fall back into old habits and that is o.k. It means that we are still growing and still learning. Often I find myself forgetting to be still, and what happens is that I begin to sink. I sink into a sadness because I am trying to do it on my own. My scripture this morning again reminded me that God is enough. But you, O Lord, are a shield about me, my glory, and the lifter of my head. Psalm 3:3 See, only God can lift me out of my sadness and I need to be silent and quiet and weak to let him do that. I pray that if you are reading this that you too remember. Remember to be silent and let the Lord be your shield.
Still have this tattoo and still look to it as my own reminder! (also it is pinned all over the internet!)
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