The Power of Quiet

In quiet and confidence is you strength

Today I awoke very early just to sit still and ponder.  Thinking is something I have grown fond of and it helps me to sort out the many twist and turns of life, the challenges, and the rewards.   I thought about the many times that I struggled with fear and new ideas.  Then one day I came upon a biblical scripture that spoke of strength that comes from quiet and confidence.  This seemed at first to be a silly notion but it came from the bible; Isaiah 30:15 to be exact.

Hmmm. I thought to myself, what would happen if I would just learn to sit still and be quiet over my problems, versus thinking that I needed to solve every single problem with a mental solution.  Why must 1 + 1 always equal 2.  Many of my problems require resources that I do not have readily available today.  Which means that a miracle will have to happen for the answer to manifest.

Well, at first I wasn't exactly very quiet because my mind was filled with noise.  But soon I was able to quiet it down and eventually I focused on a particular promise.   You see it was a simple problem, but one that was very vexing to me.  My riding lawn mower had blown its engine and it was destroyed for sure.  I have several properties and my company owns several properties and rather than paying for a lawn care service, my son and I usually do the lawn care ourselves.  It is relaxing to me, especially since I am riding.  But now with the mower broke, I was watching grass growing higher and higher and my concern was that if something doesn't happen soon I am going to need a BIG John Deere tractor to bush hog this grass.  (Bush Hog)  a large cutting apparatus that cuts tall grasses, usually acres at a time.

The other problem that I faced is that if I paid someone to cut and get this grass under control, then it would have cost in excess of $500.00 and that would be a nice down payment on a new riding mower.  In any case, I did not have the $500.00 so it didn't matter.  Again, 1 + 1 did not equal 2.  So I decided to put my new found scripture to the test.  I sat still and didn't do anything.  Well, I did have a few fleeting thoughts about how to solve the problem, but, it wasn't like worrying about it at all.  There was a peace that came with it and a confidence that even though I don't know where this is going to come from, this problem will be solved.

Sitting still is not easy y'all.. (as I smile to my hyperactive middle aged self).  The world and everything around us demands movement all the time.  The more we move the more we need to sustain that movement.  The more you need to sustain it, the more you need to spend.  It's all part of a plan to keep the economy bumping along but, I digress, more on that later.

But here is the real miracle.  Yesterday, after going to the site where I have four homes that were covered with grass I made up my mind that something had to be done.  As I was driving back to my office my mind began to race and as I was coming through the city I passed a lawn and garden dealership and there was this bright, clean John Deere mower sitting in the parking lot.  I thought it a bit strange because it was not a John Deere Dealership but boy did that lawn tractor look good.  I went inside to inquire about it and the very nice sales lady gave me details on the mower and said that it could be mine with no money down.  Wow, just the kind of deal I needed because 1 plus 1 wasn't equaling 2.  We talked about it a little more and I found out it was a well kept used mower.  I was like who cares about it being used, I got grass growing up to the roof lines of my houses, all I want to know is can it cut grass and a lot of it.

Well anyone who knows about lawn tractors knows that John Deere is the best.  So she has someone start it for me, did some paperwork and by the end of the day I was cutting grass with my new (Used) lawn tractor. Miracle!!! Yeeeaaaahhhhh!!!

This may seem so simple, but it is proof enough for me that there is power in quiet.  It may not manifest itself immediately but somehow it drives out fear and develops confidence.   So I cleared the way for my faith to work and indeed it did.

So in summary, (1) I got quiet (Prayer), (2) I drove to the site and saw the condition of the properties and saw a need (Visual), (3) I had a made up mind for a solution (Action) and God brought in the answer and directed my path to the source of my need.

I hope and pray that this makes sense to you but even if it doesn't, step out on your faith and take the time to discover the Power and Confidence gained from Quiet.

Peace!