Whenever there is stillness there is the still small
voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance... [Annie Dillard, Teaching a Stone to
Talk: Expeditions and Encounters]
I’ve been getting better at BEing Still. I’m NOT saying I've got it, but after a period of stillness, I always feel more made to fit in my
own skin. I am gentled. Quieted. Eased.
I never could BE Still, for a long stretch of Time, though I
could make-BElieve I was. I don’t know that anyone else was fooled. Surely I
was NOT!!
I may have thought that BEing Still was like BEing held down
or going away somewhere, in my mind. Now I know Stillness better. I can BE in
it and I can plan my Life and days round it.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is
that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it. [Terry Pratchett, Diggers]
When it comes to thinking things through, I envision myself a
fair bit slow with a tendency to hurry myself up. I usually assume that I need
to hurry up and figure out whatever I’m trying to think through. But that is
NOT what thinking through is at all.
Learning keeps happening. I just try to keep up.
I love you, Currie
2 comments:
Really beautiful.
love you
k
I guess that's why they say patience is a virtue. Took me a long time to even get close to it. ;)
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