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.
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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.
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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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