Musing from a contemplative mind....

Be busy and know that tasks are God.  Busyness is a taskmaster who's task is to give you more tasks.  People feel great when they accomplish something, not when they are still.  Have you ever asked someone why, they often will say, its because they feel accomplished.  When did an accomplishment become a feeling?   Cutting the lawn, completing a degree program, taking care of your taxes.  But Stillness glorifies our creator, not just getting things done.

 The western world we live in doesn't appreciate stillness.  People who stop to smell the roses are often ridiculed as unable to embrace progress and become productive.  I suppose there is nothing wrong with being productive, we need to use our time well.    What if being a kind person who is loving, generous and compassionate was perceived as a productive life.  This takes me back to the stillness thing.   Stillness to me needs to be penetrated with noise and chatter and discussion of some kind.  Stillness is paralyzing to me.  It requires something of me I am not always able to give.  Stillness.

I suppose when we can't create, move or improve is when we are in a place to see God.