Sitting in His Word {Day 21}

Meditate:   to focus one’s thoughts on ; reflect on or ponder over

Our world sets us up nicely to have time and space to reflect and ponder. Or maybe not as I write this in a hurry. The day has flown by and we are just getting home. I am grateful it is a sunny day and the kids have taken a walk to the playground with my husband.

I get an easy dinner going and I sit down. 30 minutes I tell myself. Ready, set, write (quickly) on Scripture meditation.

I take a deep breath and the reality of my last week’s busyness hits my deep held belief on the importance of quiet, unhurried space.

What are your signs that your life is moving at too fast of a pace? Is it forgetfulness? Irritability? Anxiousness? Exhaustion? Worry?

When I’m living at that pace, my soul is what often gets forgotten. And when it does, rather than living from a grounded place, I am floating in the breeze. From that place fear can sway me more easily.

I sit here confronted with the truth that I am writing on something that feels farther from my soul than I like it to be. With a sweet whisper he reminds me these days don’t define me. He sees past it to my heart. To a heart that longs to gaze upon Him. To a heart that waits eagerly for a drink from his well. To a heart that cares for small kids and bedtimes, swim lessons and navigating transition.

My minutes of a quiet house are passing. I’m not writing. I’m just reflecting. They are all soon back and my laptop was set aside. I pick it back up a few hours later. And in the span of that time, I remember.

I remember what it is like to sit in his word. To not analyze or study, but to just be. To let it swirl around me and in me and be my quiet place. To be a buffer, to create margin. Opening me to the presence and movement and beauty of God.

“A spiritual kingdom lies all about us, enclosing us, embracing us, altogether within reach of our inner selves, waiting for us to recognize it. God himself is here, waiting our response to His presence. This eternal world will come alive to us the moment we begin to reckon upon its reality.”  AW Tozer

Slow down. Oh how hard that can seem. Slow down. It is where we see with the eyes of our heart. Slow down.

“How blessed is the man who does not walk in the counsel of the wicked,
Nor stand in the path of sinners,
Nor sit in the seat of scoffers!
But his delight is in the law of the LORD,
And in His law he meditates day and night.
He will be like a tree firmly planted by streams of water,
Which yields its fruit in its season
And its leaf does not wither;
And in whatever he does, he prospers.”

Psalm 1

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