Saturday, August 07, 2004

On which on side of being lies doing

So on the one side Darren, we do to much, we hurry along, we don't stop and have not idea on the where there the roses are growing - let alone smelling it. We tend to keep ourselves to busy, with the "right" things, and like Martha we prepare, "we - cook" and for relaxation "we cook some more", and like Martha we live on the edge of missing out on the the good stuff.
Maybe we get lucky - God intervenes, we get shocked into stillness, and realise that we have been hurrying along so fast that we missed out on LIFE, and then we hopefully start BEING.
We breath, we sit at His feet, we listen, we learn, we understand something about hte quiteness inside.
I realised that this quiteness is the place where I meet God, where he finds me, where I can hear His quiet voice.
And then I sat. With no need to control, no need to arrange, to "cook' to impress, I just revelled in being - quiet ( OK knowing me you realised at this point that I still had a lot to say, but for me not to do, was huge)
So here is the question I'm pondering, when and how does the doing borned from being begin, when is the doing free of pretence, and truly grew from the knowledge that quietness is the birthplace of doing - where do you cross over to the other side??

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