Being Still

I don’t know about you, but for me, Summer 2024 seemed to have come and gone in the blink of an eye. One day the sun was setting at almost 9 o’clock in the evening, I blinked and the next day the sun was taking her rest before 8:00 o’clock. The girls got out of school for summer break, I blinked and just like that we’re doing back to school shopping.

Even though we have only a few more blinks before Autumn makes her unofficial entrance, I would invite you to savor these next several weeks.

I invite you to embody the words of the Psalmist to, “Be still,” in order to find rest and joy in the presence of God. I invite you to put into practice the words found in this poem by Shellan Lubin:

“Rest:

as beautiful and necessary a task as any.

How else can we remember to breathe?

to think?

to shut out the world?

to not think?

to regain the strength

to take on the world?

to take in the world

with all our senses?

to dream?”

As I pause this week, I will rest so that come September, I am enlivened with new God-sized dreams for life and ministry. Will you join me in this beautiful and necessary task of rest? Join me...so together we can return with new dreams, ready to take on the world for the cause of Christ.

Growing in Christ

Pastor Donna Olivia Owusu-Ansah