Learning To Sit Still

So I am 34, and I am just starting to really learn to sit still. (Insert my parents’ applause here). The pace of life in our culture is lightning fast, don’t you think? I have been meditating and reading L.B. Cowman’s Streams in the Desert. For today, she was talking about how fast paced life was (mind you she wrote this in like the 1920′s). I wonder what she would think about the pace of life now!! Anyway, we are so busy at being busy that we forget to make room in our lives for the things that matter. Namely God, our family, and even oursleves. I drank the Kool-Aid. I’m busy by nature-a workaholic even. But I am learning about disciplines, especially spiritual disciplines. I used to think that disciplines were about checking a box. Read bible. Check! Pray. Check! But John Ortberg once said that the disciplines are about creating space, making room. So for me, learning to sit still is a discipline I am learning so that I am able to make space in my life for God. I am beginning to use the same for my family and even myself. Creating space in our lives allows us to connect with God, others, and ourselves.

Tags: Discipline, practice