Still and Silent
I have nothing to say, but sometimes that is a good thing. Sometimes we need to just be still and silent. I think in our modern society we get so use to things being “crazy” all the time that we forget that sometimes things do slow down, and it’s okay to just be. I have often been drawn to God in my life during those crazy times, which is perhaps why they happen, but now I need to learn how to be drawn to God in the quite moments too. This week I’ve been reminded of the beauty that can be found in Nature. I am not a morning person, so rarely am I up in the quiet moments of early morning. However, I’ve been “testing out” a new tent in my back yard. I slept out there a few nights and because of the sun shining I have awoken early. It was wonderful to lay there and hear the birds singing, to look out and see the robins hunting food, and the bees combing the flowers, and to smell the wet morning grass. I didn’t have TV, or radio, I wasn’t thinking on the current or next crises, I was just there in the moment. The moment wasn’t long, maybe an hour, but it was the happiest and most content moment I have had in a long time. God did that. He gave us all the beauty in our natural world, we just need to be still and silent sometimes to see it, because He is there. I don’t want God to be just someone I find in the bad times, I want Him to be the one I find in the good as well.