Be Still, and Know
A short command from an old psalm asks us to stop, and tells us why.
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A short command from an old psalm asks us to stop, and tells us why.
An ancient line, written for a frightened people, asks us to stop before it asks us to understand.
A single line from Psalm 46 asks us to stop long enough to remember who holds the world.
Psalm 46 answers a restless heart not with a task but with a stillness that holds steady when everything else shakes.
Rest is not the absence of effort but a decision to stop carrying what was never ours to hold.
A short study on stillness, and why resting in God is an act, not an absence of one.
A single line from Psalm 46 asks us to stop long enough to remember who holds the world.
Rest is not the absence of effort but a discipline we have to learn, and the psalms give us room to practise it.
Stillness is not idleness; it is the discipline of trusting God when we would rather act.
When the day asks more of us than we have, Scripture does not tell us to try harder, but to stop.
An ancient line invites us to stop striving long enough to remember who holds the world.
A single line from the Psalms asks us to stop, and to trust that God is still at work when we are not.
Rest is not the reward we earn at the end of the day; it is something we are invited into now.
A short line from an old song of trust asks us to stop before it asks us to believe.
Rest is not the absence of faith but one of its harder disciplines.
A single line from an old song for a nation under pressure asks the tired to stop, and to let God be God.
A single line from the Psalms asks the tired reader to stop moving long enough to remember who holds the day.
Stillness is not the reward for a settled heart; it is the practice that settles one.
A single line from the Psalms asks us to stop before it asks us to trust.
A single line from the Psalms teaches us that rest is not the same as retreat.
The crossing of the sea holds together two commands that seem to contradict each other.
After the boldest act of her life, Ruth is told to wait, and it is good advice.
A study of Jesus's questions in the boat about the loaves, and the blindness they expose.