Showing posts with label be still. Show all posts
Showing posts with label be still. Show all posts

Monday, April 14, 2008

From Eliot's Ash Wednesday.

Teach us to care and not to care;
Teach us to sit still.

Monday, March 17, 2008

Be Still.

"Be still, and know that I am god. I shall be exalted among the heathen, I will be exalted in the earth."
-Psalms 46:10

I love it when I find these little tastes of the god of my understanding in the Bible. I need to make time to meditate. I hate it when I'm too lazy or busy to take proper care of myself. I hate it when I don't know if I'm too lazy or busy...you'd think those two wouldn't overlap so strangely.

I had trouble sleeping last night. I had trouble being still. My mind goes, and goes, and goes, and I seem to be lacking skills in turning it off...and no wonder I don't have skills in turning it off. I don't practice.

My goal for myself is to try to find 20 minutes twice a week, at least, to sit in stillness, to lose my focus, and to find that soft place inside myself that is most precious and true...to be still and know.