Hold Still
Learning what we need doesn’t always come to us easily. We often fight it. Sometimes we need a crisis to happen or a wise person to show us the way and to help us uncover what we already know, but are just too busy to hear it.
I know I am the type. The busy type. The can’t sit still type. I crave and need silence yet I often run from it at the same time.
Now that’s a picture an artist would have fun drawing. A figure running in many directions, hands outstretched holding an empty cup. Moving toward what she needs but running from it at the same time. If an artist can’t capture that, neither can you, right?
I had one of those lessons recently; where I had to surrender to what I needed, rest – silence – stillness, and boy did I fight it.
I had my first migraine attack in six or seven years this past week and I was quickly reminded how debilitating they are. Then I had an adverse reaction to an injection I was given for the pain. In the end, the final cure, after a trip to the ER and the right drug, the ultimate healer – surrendering to the power of prayer, being still. I didn’t think I had the time to be still and let go as a mom of two, but nature had something else in mind. Let go sister or you won’t do anyone any favors. I have had more sleep in the last five days then a new born baby gets in a week. In my dreams I have gone to Hong Kong and back, written novels, conquered the world.
I needed rest. My body also might be telling me something else because of all the adverse reactions it had to food, medicine, life. So I am making steps to listen. Holding still so I can hear the messages energy healers, naturopaths, the Divine within, my friends, my husband, my body, God and all the ways she delivers messages to me, if I just hold still long enough to hear them, right?
How will you hold still today? How will you surrender to what you need to hear today? I’d love to know, so would everyone else. Do tell.
If you hold still what do you hear? Is it time for prayer, surrender, a good headache medicine, or both?