Still

 

I’m sitting in a hotel room on the 14th floor next to a wall entirely made up of windows. There is a jackhammer jumping on the street down below. Cars are zipping through the city streets and cruising down the highway eight lanes deep. The sky is full of wispy clouds slowly drifting across the sky. 

This is where I’ll spend five silent minutes of focus and gratitude. It’s how I am learning to be still and know that He is God. It’s where I quiet my soul. It reminds me how small I am in a big world in a busy city, and how enormous my Father is as the world slowly turns and the shape of the clouds change moment by moment. Here is where I refuel after being immersed in crazy busy hustle for the past few months. 

Quiet.

Still.

Open.

Whole. 

This is heaven on earth. I can hear the jackhammer loud and clear, which proves that I am still in the world, but here I am with Jesus and I am no longer of this world. I am a citizen of heaven.

“Cease striving and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth.”

‭‭Psalms‬ ‭46:10‬ ‭NASB1995‬‬

https://bible.com/bible/100/psa.46.10.NASB1995