Thoughts and feelings can whirl you away from being centred. The practice of stillness can calm the mind and bring back clarity. The Bible has verses to help us on the way." The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still", Exodus 14:14. Such an assurance it must have given the people of Israel as they left Egypt to go home. They didn’t need to panic or worry because God was right there with them. The invite was to be still. Nothing is so one with the nature of God as stillness. To live a spiritual life is to live in the presence of God—to be still and know. Stillness is a deliberate act of the will, our response to Jesus’ love call to come and listen, learn, and abide. If we will discipline our minds to still our anxious thoughts and quietly keep watch with Him, the journey will begin to unravel its magnificent mystery. All of life flows in an intimate proximity to the sacred. It is this proximity that endows everything that exists with ultimate significance,
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