Be Still

If the last few years have taught us anything, it’s learning or relearning how to slow down. We begin to learn the richness of waiting, of slowing down, of looking and listening, allowing the world around us and within us to work on us. We begin to understand what it means to receive what is being offered to us every day: the lovescape of God’s handiwork within and around us. We begin to see and hear as we did as a child.

This is especially true when we feel helpless to do anything to change our circumstances. We begin to just be. And at some point from within comes the voice,

Be still and know that I am God.
Be still and know that I am.
Be still and know that I…
Be still and know that …
Be still and know…
Be still and…
Be still.
Be.

—from Franciscan Spirit‘s “Holy Mary: Model of Patience“
by Murray Bodo, OFM