G QUIETLY

g is to stretch our nervous systems until we are not nervous anymore. Our apprehensions concerning silence and solitude are simply that… waiting in silence and solitude. Just waiting without an agenda is contrary to most of our personalities. However, in my own experience without the waiting my ears become dull, anxious and I hear myself instead of the Lord. To confuse hearing ourselves and thinking it is the Lord, is probably self-admission of not really waiting… but hurrying things along. I know I have done that many times.
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) famously said, “All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” Though it has taken a long time to get this far… it can still be just that for me: ‘an inability to sit quietly in a room alone.’ But it gets easier all the time as I travel along. The thing that has changed most of Waiting Quietly for me is to not wait seeking anything but the presence of the Lord. Any other issues and answers just kind of seep out from the presence.
“There remains, then, a Sabbath-rest for the people of God; for anyone who enters God’s rest also rests from their works, just as God did from his” (Hebrews 4:9-10).

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.” Jesus