Be Still

"Be still. Be still. Be still. God in the midst of you is substance. God in the midst of you is love. God in the midst of you is wisdom. Let not your thoughts be given to lack, but let wisdom fill them with the substance and faith of God. Let not your heart be a center of resentment and fear and doubt. Be still and know that at this moment it is the altar of God, of love; love so sure and unfailing, love so irresistible and magnetic that it draws your supply to you from the great store-house of the universe. Trust God, use God's wisdom, prove and express God's love."

"We must have quiet and opportunity for inward searching, for we must go beyond what we have heretofore attained. There is nothing in hearsay or in observation or in the evidence of the senses, apart from spiritual discernment, that can take us beyond our present footing."

"A period of quiet and rest each day is your opportunity to establish yourself at the center of your being, the one place where the supply of life and substance is inexhaustible. God is this eternal life that we make into living. Each day you should have a period of stillness when the soul may gather sustaining power and restoring life. God gives freely; it is for us to keep the receiving channels open, to keep attuned to the realities so that our intellect does not take us out among the limited ideas of the world."
~Myrtle Fillmore from: Healing Letters
Not being a member of the Unity Church, I really hadn't known much of Myrtle Fillmore. She was quite the lady! I am reading some of her Healing Letters (you can online) and am challenged by her comments about stillness, quiet and prayer. Making time each day has always been difficult for me. I seem to always be doing something, dishes, laundry, work, walking the dog. The thought that the "supply of life is unexhaustible" when we can spend time in quiet and prayer drives me to make sure I do have that time each day. Using this deep well of Life helps to sustain us as we live out our lives in faith and love each day. Trying to keep going without restoring Life will eventually leave us fatigued and without hope. It's like a well, you can pump most all of the water out of it, but you need to let it recover (allow the ground water to restore the level of the water in the well). The amount of recovery time depends on many factors, one being how much demand you place on the well. We get so preoccupied with life, we demand more from ourselves than we can supply without sufficient recovery time. We must go into silence, connect with our source of ground water, God, and allow our systems to recover. The more regularly we allow ourselves to recover, the more resources we have to call on each day.
Be Still.