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Monday Meditations - Be Still

1/25/2016

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This week I am starting a new thing I like to call Monday Meditations. I invite you to add links to your website/blog that are devotional in nature, so that we might all encourage one another. Today's meditation or devotional is a poem I wrote some years ago during a time when I was purposely being quiet before the Lord. Rather than coming before Him with all my worries and prayer requests, I deliberately sat still and just listened - waiting for Him to speak.  This poem is the result of that time of quiet reflection.

Be Still

If I close my eyes and remain perfectly still
 will I be able to shut out the noise of the day?
The barking dog across the street?
My neighbour's children yelling?
The drone of the dishwasher?
 
Be STILL and know that I am God.

How can I be still enough to hear You, O Lord?
My mind is always racing.
Thoughts pop into my head,
random ideas that beg to be chased down.
I am still, but there is too much noise.
 
How do I HEAR you O Lord?
 
Do I keep repeating Your name like a mantra?
Will humming work, or scented candles?
Do I search the Scriptures looking for signs
that You are speaking only to me?
 
How do I HEAR you?

BE STILL and know that I am God.
 
Is it in the waiting?
How long do I give you before You will speak?
One hour? Two?
I have waited, yet I do not hear.
 
BE STILL and know that I am God.
 
I stepped outside and my ears were overwhelmed
 with noise from cars, children, dogs and lawnmowers.
It is hard to focus inside my house.
It is equally hard outside.
 
And then I heard You.
 
A still small voice.
 
A gentle breeze that caressed my face.
The leaves rustling in the trees,
blowing a sweet sound of praise.
A sunbeam piercing through a cloud,
landing on my face with a warm, gentle kiss.
Subtle touches that fill my heart
till it is close to bursting with joy!
 
No audible voice, but a presence that is unmistakable.
 
It is not the stilling of my mind or the sounds around me 
that enable me to hear you.
I hear You because I have pursued You
and You love to be pursued.
 
So, I will seek you in the morning and in the evening.
I will talk to you throughout my stress-filled, noisy, busy days.
And I will hear You because 
I am Your child and You are my God, my Father, my Saviour.
 
My Friend.
 
“Be still, and know that I am God;
   I will be exalted among the nations,
   I will be exalted in the earth.” (Psalm 46:10)


Please share your devotional website/blog links below. Let us encourage one another in the Lord.
An InLinkz Link-up
6 Comments
Lee Frost link
1/25/2016 04:26:30 pm

Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful poem. So beautiful. Also, thank you for being willing to help others get their blog post out. God bless you.

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Laura link
1/25/2016 05:14:01 pm

Thank you Lee. Please feel free to add your link above!

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Sandra H
1/25/2016 04:35:09 pm

Hello Laura, thank you for this beautiful poem. Would you mind if i saved it and printed it off? Of course i will credit it to you as it of course yours. There have been times in my own past when I found it difficult to remain still or sat long enough to meditate on his words. Especially while at college. My time was spent either writing assignments and essays or researching for my projects.

But I did thank him at the end of each day for helping me survive it. We tend at times to take for granted His presence in our lives. At the time I know i did. But not anymore.

It is with immense gratitude that I welcome your post and your poem. Alas I do not have a blog or a website but I can share with my friends on Google+

God bless you Laura
Sandra

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Laura link
1/25/2016 05:09:38 pm

Sandra you are more than welcome to share it with your friends on Google+. I am glad you enjoyed the poem.

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Michele Morin link
1/25/2016 04:53:34 pm

Laura, I'm so glad to have found your blog and this lovely meditation. It reads like a psalm. Blessings!

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Laura link
1/25/2016 05:10:23 pm

Thank you Michele!

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