And quietude.
I have duties. Yet I will instead live this day in retreat.
This shed used to be filled with tools and implements. Now it has a chair, a table, a small shelf. Here is where now the greatest work takes place.
I sit, and read, and study, and breathe, and reflect, and sit.
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You place no more burden upon me, Lord, than I can bear — yet perhaps it is not strength I need but rest and respite.
What greater joy could there be, than to be with you in quietude?
– from the mountain
Consider:
Can I sit, and enjoy the stillness today?
Reading:
“Solitude is the furnace of transformation.”
— Henri J. M. Nouwen
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“Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time.”
— John Lubbock
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“In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength.”
— Isaiah 30:15 (KJV)
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