still

So, right now I am trying to figure out what to post. I have nothing to talk about, yet my desire to blog is getting incessantly greater as I type. Oh, I know what I will talk about. Kevin Johnson. Now, stop what you are thinking. Right now....QUIT IT! He is the IWU's Student Body Chaplin and he did an amazing message today. HA gotcha. So turn around from what you were thinking and come back to what I am going to tell you. "Still" That was the word on the screen as the IWU study body sat in our seats waiting. It's strange to watch college students settle. Someone is always fidgeting, or the random coughs that come from one end of the auditorium to the balcony. Then there are the ever annoying girls that are fixing their hair or those guys that hunker down in their seats having the lull of sleep over take their eyes. Kevin does this sometimes with his messages. He waits for the calm after worship and then starts. He read Psalms 46. If you have ever read that, you know the awesome picture that it paints of our God. He focused on verse 10 "Be still, and know that I am God." He talked about how he felt that he lead his life like "God will help those, that help themselves." And as I was sitting there, it was like BAM! (like Emeril had come to chapel) That was completely me. I am always running. Doing. Do I ever take time to just sit, and be still? Today was one of those days. Out of my room @ 7:40 and don't return till 1:15. And even then it was throw down the books and run to Wildcat for lunch with a friend. Go to the Student Development Office to change my meal plan. Hop on over to the Health Center to schedule a travel physical. Run back to the room, grab an assignment and skip over to the Rec Center to hand it into a prof. Cartwheel back to the dorm, get an application and sprint over to the Alumni Center. By then, I am completely exhausted. All I could think of was taking a nap and getting these incredibly uncomfortable sneakers off. Maybe I did get that nap in, maybe I did get the room cleaned, maybe I did get a lot of homework done tonight. But have I take time to sit down in the quite and listen to my Heavenly Father? And for once, not talk. Not ask question. Not whine. Not argue. Just sit in his presences "Be still, and know that I am God." and let him move as he may. Kevin was talking about finding God in the everyday moments. Perhaps as I sit her in Maple Leaf's room, listening to the Parent Trap soundtrack, it's one of those moments. It's nothing to write a book on. But it's a time to reflect, and see how blessed I am.