Be Still ~

“Be still and know that I am God.” — Psalm 46:10
Many years ago, I created a meditation for my yoga class based on this verse. It was simple and spacious.
Be still and know.
Ten years later, this has become my January rhythm.
This year, January arrived not as a launch but as a pause. I allowed the new year to come without requiring it to be anything other than a time to be still.
As I shared with my Untucked community on the first Sunday of the month, my intention was not only to enter the year in peace but also to let my book arrive quietly into the world as well. I wanted it simply to be with me. Held close. Honored. Before releasing it.
The first section of Untucked is titled Stillness Speaks. It feels fitting to live those words rather than rush past them.
As we move through the final week of January, I find myself returning to the verse again, this time letting it soften and open:
Be still and know that I am God.
Be still and know.
Be still.
Be.
Stillness, I’ve learned, is about remembering.
To be still is not to freeze or disappear, but to stop running from ourselves long enough to notice what is already true. Stillness is where the untucked parts of us finally exhale.
In the quiet, I don’t have to perform or edit my heart. I can bring all of me into the stillness and know…
January is the perfect time to practice this stillness. It invites surrender and trust. It gives the body time to catch up with the soul and space for what has been awakening within us to settle.
When I am still, I know I am not behind.
I am becoming.
Perhaps this is what the verse has been whispering all along:
Stop striving long enough to remember who you belong to.
Stop tucking yourself away long enough to feel what is sacred within you.
As January comes to a close, I am not rushing ahead. I am letting the quiet do its work. I am choosing to be still and to trust what is being prepared, even if I cannot yet imagine it.
Peace be with you in stillness.
J~
 

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