The Command to Do Nothing
 

The Command to Do Nothing
by Max Lucado

When I was ten, my mother enrolled me in piano lessons. Spending thirty minutes every afternoon tethered to a piano bench was a torture just one level away from swallowing broken glass.

I hammered the staccatos. I belabored the crescendos. But there was one instruction in the music I could never obey to my teacher’s satisfaction. The rest. The zigzagged command to do nothing. Nothing! What sense does that make? “Because,” my teacher patiently explained, “music is always sweeter after a rest.”

“Be still,” the scripture says, “and know that I am God” (Psalm 46:10). Perhaps it is time for you to let the music slow to a stop…and be still and rest.

From The Applause of Heaven

Like this, was sharing with a friend yesterday, "How often can we be still and have no outside force interfering with my thoughts. No music, no TV, no conversation, no computer, no book, no food, etc. those things that take us out of self, so we can know the peace within. We can go there with chaos around us, especially in time of need, but when I want to talk to my God, I like private and His undivided attention so that I don't misinterpret His guidance and hear His words instead of mine or someone else's.