"Be still long enough to drink down all this ordinary glory."

Ann Voskamp asks at A Holy Experience,

When is the last time you’ve stilled and listened to your heart?

When have you last stilled and listened long to the rhythm of your life?

When have you last listened to your body speak to your life?

Sometimes you aren’t listening to your body because you’re listening to everybody else’s expectations.
Running yourself down because you’re trying to keep up is one way to trip your priorities upside down.

Laying there under a thin hospital sheet in the dimmed room, listening only to the stillness and my heart beat echoing off walls, there it is:

The only way you can listen to your body — is not to be afraid of silence.

By silence, sanity is found. By silence, sense is made of things. By silence, Satan is silenced and lives can listen to their Maker. Why — had I waited till literal heart failure to sit in a long, long stretch of clarifying silence?

...Maybe I hadn’t been fully hearing God — because I hadn’t been fully listening to what was happening in my own heart?

...Maybe I had needed to fall into literal heart failure — so my life wouldn’t fail?

...Come home to your life and listen to the mystery of it and press your ear up against the Word-voice of God and witness the very growing of your own soul and be still long enough to drink down all this ordinary glory and hear your heart keep beating how all is grace.

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