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Written by Ann Voskamp, a contemporary author.  This is an excerpt from her book “Sacred Prayer.”

The way to always begin anything is to begin to still everything. Stillness is your strength. In a wild, wearying world, this is the realest reality: The only way to still stay standing is to make time to stand still. This is what your soul needs to know in this moment: You don’t need to strive, you don’t need to strain, you simply need to still. Because your stillness says you’re trusting Him still. This art of being still is hard. Stillness may be the most difficult to learn, and it takes time and prayerful practice. As the theologian of old, F. B. Meyer, wrote, “We must cultivate the habit of stillness in our lives, if we would detect and know God.”¹ This habit, this way of life, of interior soul stillness — this will take time to learn. But we absolutely must learn the spiritual practice of stillness if we want to know God. This matters: No stillness — no God. But know stillness — know God.

Be still and know that I am God. [Psalm 46:10]