Stillness…
How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then rest afterward. – Spanish Proverb
Stillness. It may be a challenge in the midst of the madness of the season. This is the time of the winter rush of chaos swirling toward holiday festiveness. How do we find moments to catch our breath? Where do we nestle within the crevices of serenity, if only for a moment? The quiet beckons….
While reflecting on the need for moments of stillness this season, I am mindful of the poem by T.S. Eliot:
I say to myself “be still
and wait without hope,
for hope would be hope for the wrong thing;
And wait without love,
for love would be love of the wrong thing;
There is yet faith.
But the faith and the hope and the love
are all in the waiting.
And do not think, for you are not ready for thought;
so the darkness shall be the light
and the stillness, the dancing.”
T.S. Eliot, Four Quartets
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