Those of you who live where it snows, you know how everything gets muffled outside after a big snow? How it's unbelievably quiet? If we listen carefully, we can "hear" God in that stillness. Does he talk in words in that quiet place? Well, I can say for sure that he doesn't talk in words to me in that quiet place. The stillness is itself a conversation, a place where we can "Be still and know that [he] is God." Just feel God's gaze and know that he is God.
For those of you living in the deep south, do you know the stillness that's outside on a hot, hot day? (You know the kind of heat where you can actually see the heat rising up from the ground?) When no one is outside and, perhaps, the only thing you hear is the drone of air conditioners? You can sit in that stillness, let the heat penetrate to your bones, and just feel God's gaze and know that he is God.
God's peace is present in the stillness of your heart. Do you know what else is present? Your knowledge that he is there, caressing you all day long. What a comfortable thought.
