So much of this year has been about learning to sit still in God’s company.
Tag: stillness
So many of our frustrations with others stem from our inability to sit alone in a room with God. Slowing ourselves to His pace will inevitably sort out the vexations that plague us.
As a pastor, I am well aware of the pressure to perform amidst passion week. Busy is the badge of the good minister, isn’t it? And where exactly in scripture can we cite this example? What in life is ever made better by rushing? Ann Voskamp’s words come to mind, how hurry makes amateurs of us all.
Thick skin is the easiest coping mechanism when we are living in a fallen world, but it’s not the coping mechanism that God intended for us to take on.
Still is a strange word, a little unsettling even. But it is the word that has been chasing me down and soothing my spirit for the last month or so.
Being still is not my suit. I wonder if you can relate? I’m a planner, a do-er, a get-er-done kind of gal. Yet I limped through the last week of 2021 in stillness; assuaged with sorrow.