“Be still, and know that I am God!”

This scripture was on today’s devotional in my 365 Devotions book.  And it has been the header for at least the last month on a daily devotional email I receive. I wonder… Have I not been paying attention? Have I not been seeing, feeling, hearing or knowing God for all these days?

It’s easy to miss God in the everyday business of busy-ness if I am not LOOKING.  When I am paying attention to all the noise from clients returning to work after the holidays, or a messy house that needs cleaning,  it’s easy for that noise to drown out the Presence of God.  When I am worried about how I’m going to get everything done on my list, it’s easy to miss seeing God in my everyday activities.

What is it to “be still and know that I am God?”  Where has my focus been and how can I change it to recognize God in everything I do?  As I re-listened to a portion of a book by Dr. Wayne Dyer, Wishes Fulfilled, he repeated the prayer attributed to St. Francis of Assisi:

“Lord, make me an instrument of your peace; where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, union; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; and where there is sadness, joy.

“O Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled, as to console; to be understood, as to understand; to be loved, as to love; for it is in giving that we receive, it is in pardoning that we are pardoned, and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.” Amen.

Lord, help me learn to BE STILL and KNOW that you are GOD, every day and every where I look and to be your hands and feet to others.  Amen!