Stillness

Last night I was sitting on the front porch just taking it all in. Looking at the beautiful moon and clouds lit up by it. As I sat there on the swing, I wished I could delete everything in front of me blocking my view of the trees and sky so that all that was left would be purely what God had created. Then I could just be still and know that He is God. I think of all the things that i get distracted by - TV, computer, the to do list, materialism - and when I'm sitting there in the dark how none of them matter. Imagining what it would look like from the front porch looking over the horizon line without any distractions (houses, roads...) I thought how can people look at this picture and not know that God is. It makes me sad to think about it. Sitting in the stillness motivates me to get rid of the meaningless distractions and do whatever I can to love God and love people, because nothing else matters. A lot of times I think we sit around waiting for an opportunity to come to us in which we can reach out to others. But I want to look for things each day that create opportunities for myself to reach out by just taking the action to do it.