Stillness

I have yet to talk to anyone, me included (yes I talk to myself), who is not talking about how busy we are, especially that it is the holidays.  We have shopping to do, family for which to prepare, work to be completed, and 

more and

more and 

more and 

more stuff to do.

We are running around like mad and for what?  What does all of this breakneck speed get us?     Happiness? Wealth? Love? Peace? Better Relationships?  

In Psalm 46:10 God tells us to "Be still and know and know that I am God."  

 

To be still means to relax, to literally let drop.  Once we do that, we have the ability to hear God and really get to know Him deeply, intimately, clearly.

So what keeps us from this?  

What keeps us running so frantically that we find it impossible to to be still? 

What is so important that we prohibit ourselves from letting go?  

What kind of schedules are we keeping that we have replaced relationship with a to do list?

God desires to have relationship with us.  His whole pattern from the beginning of time was to dwell among His people,  to KNOW them and build an intimate friendship with them.  God, the Creator of the Universe, the Divine wants to know us and is waiting patiently and gently calling to "be still".

May we not be so busy that we do not even hear the call.