The Henri Nouwen Society in Toronto, Ontario, Canada DAILY MEDITATION: "A Still Place in the Market" for Tuesday, 20 March 2018

The Henri Nouwen Society in Toronto, Ontario, Canada DAILY MEDITATION: "A Still Place in the Market" for Tuesday, 20 March 2018

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"Be still and acknowledge that I am God" (Psalm 46:10)[“Desist, and learn that I am God,supreme over the nations,supreme over the earth.”(Complete Jewish Bible)]. These are words to take with us in our busy lives. We may think about stillness in contrast to our noisy world. But perhaps we can go further and keep an inner stillness even while we carry on business, teach, work in construction, make music, or organise meetings.
It is important to keep a still place in the "marketplace." This still place is where God can dwell and speak to us. It also is the place from where we can speak in a healing way to all the people we meet in our busy days. Without that still space we start spinning. We become driven people, running all over the place without much direction. But with that stillness God can be our gentle guide in everything we think, say, or do.

For further reflection...
"May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O Lord, my Rock and my Redeemer." (Psalm 19: 14 (NIV))
Your response...
"I discovered that I felt at home and alive in silence, which compelled me to enter my interior world and walk around there. Silence itself had become my teacher." (Karen Armstrong, The Spiral Staircase)

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Text excerpts taken from Bread for the Journey, by Henri J.M. Nouwen, ©1997 HarperSanFrancisco. All Scripture from The Jerusalem Bible©1966, 1967, and 1968 Darton, Longman & Todd and Doubleday & Co. Inc. Scripture chosen by L. Yeskoo.
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