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This selection feels like a song, or a chant. It's repeated lines -- Be still know I am God -- endlessly pull us back to the same spot. They become a command to the mind (which, frankly, needs all the help it can get to discover stillness).
We also have the contrast of the stillness and speaking. The only way we hear God speaking to us is through profound stillness. But it is not that the God speaks in words. God speaks to us through all of life's experiences, and through the natural world -- through the trees and the mountains, through our first sight and first thought and first love. God speaks to us through our perception and our consciousness. But when we lack stillness, we take everything at face value and don't know what's really happening. The deep truth is that every experience is an experience of consciousness. When we are still enough to truly see this, then we witness an expansive presence permeating the vast panorama, we 'hear' a voice that speaks not in words but in the fulness of meaning. Then it's no longer theory or theology, that's when we recognize what "I am" -- Being -- really is. That's when we know God.
Be still
Know
I am
God.
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Ivan
M. Granger's original poetry, stories and commentaries are Copyright ©
2002 - 2011 by Ivan M. Granger.
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