Stillness is not laziness. It is not giving up. Stillness is the moment your spirit finally catches up to your body. It is the breath you didn’t realize you were holding. It is the space where God can speak, where clarity settles, where peace remembers your name.
When you allow yourself to stop, even for a minute, you open a door back to your inner life. You begin to hear your own thoughts again. You start to feel what your heart has been trying to tell you. You reconnect with the purpose that gets buried under the noise of everyday routines.
In that stillness, you learn that you don’t always have to push. You don’t always have to force. You don’t always have to be strong. Sometimes, the most powerful thing you can do is rest… breathe… and simply exist. Stillness allows healing to enter. It allows wisdom to rise. It allows your next step to reveal itself without being chased.
So today, gift yourself a moment. Sit in the quiet. Let your mind settle like water after a storm. Listen for the guidance that comes only when everything else grows silent.
Because to live is not just to move through the world, to truly live is to pause, to be still, and to let your spirit breathe.
~Susan Daley