I love this time. A fresh year, stretched out...
I have named the year of 2012 the year of stillness. A year of settling, of resting my soul in the Lord regardless of what comes my way. My verse: "Be still and know that I am God..."Psalm 46:10
I am a go-er, a do-er kind of girl. A Martha. A “get-er-done” kind of girl. Stillness, I don't know much of.
Its a different for me to think about meditating on a single portion of scripture for more than a day, to chew on a passage of scripture for a couple of weeks instead of reading my Bible through in a year, to re-read a book, to purpose to not schedule much on the calendar, to soak my soul, to talk less. I'm thinking about occasionally wearing scotch tape on my lips.
Its new for me to think about stillness in the moments when life is crazy and too much is on the calendar, and I've simply had it with my husband and children.
Stillness in the pressure? Its new to think about developing an inner calm...
This issue of stillness, of waiting on the Lord, began after reading a series of books this summer that were quite simply amazing reads and messed with my head. The reading frenzy started with Crazy Love, and Forgotten God by Francis Chan, Radical, and Radical Together by David Platt and I concluded the summer with Don’t Waste Your Life, by John Piper.
Simply reading the title, "Don't Waste Your Life" motivates me to want to get going.
My practical take away from each of these motivating reads in this season of my life, is to simply be. As I live each day being, that's when I do.
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