Mentor💜MySister

So… Have you ever encouraged people to the point you are  more so encouraging yourself?

I happened to me, this week… yes it did. It seems like I’ve been giving everyone this word all week… and then.. it appears.

 “Be Still. “

God has been really speaking to me. I had a vision or a dream the other morning. It was about My Grandmother, Mae. There she was… in my spirit this morning. Her resoluteness. Her certain magic. I saw an image in my mind of how she used to stand over her kitchen, & just look out over it as if she were a solider holding down the  fort.  She would stare straight ahead… as if she was thinking or contemplating with a certain look at her children and grandchildren. Standing resolute at that counter… I would often contemplate with her…  eight years old wondering what was in her finite mind…I still treasure contemplations…   am I the only one still who  does this? In my fam… am I only one still…  and quietly discerning?

Feeling like she was Present, and happy. 

hard to tell though, her expression was  serene. 

What should I call it?

Peace?

We are-family .The Stensons-  a family that’s known for being Present.

Listeners.

So I wrote my families a letter and emails this A.M.:

“Let’s redeem that, this week.

Let’s be still enough to notice. “

Just exactly what my grandma Mae  was praying and deeply…. contemplating feeling…or feeling about her people in that place. In her kitchen,… just …Being Still .  Will forever have me wondering.

I had a week sort of like  this , this past week ,in quiet contemplation.

Yet I was blessed to find peace this week in being still. My grandmother visited me, this week. Mae practiced that regularly. Stillness.  I believer this where I get that stillness from.

When  I’m not still my mind and world turns upside down ..  Things are out of order …what ‘s important sort of diminishes and I get distracted.

My Priorities Shift.

So in  the spirit of my grandmother Mae , I ask you to be still this week, spend time alone and with God and think… just be resolute … find resolve … find peace.

 I looked up STILL in the dictionary and the word STILL meant” ‘ to be (current, to make motionless.)’
Whew,  that just took me some place!

In my book, Red Sea Situations, I  wrote a chapter called ‘What’s Your Positional Stance?’ I recall several motionless nights…just sitting there waiting on God. Not moving.  Not deciding, but waiting to hear his voice,  look for an impression, let him decide my fate, etc… Then, I looked it up n the Hebrew language concordance to gather deep meaning… Being “Still” in the  concordance means to:  (relax, abate,  withdraw,  to let drop, refrain, or  forsake.) It’s interesting that I found words that pertain to  such life-giving spiritual purpose.  Intertwined with  the  words often my husband and I use to encourage one another: We always tend to say to each other:” Just Sit Back, relax and  Enjoy the ride..” I suppose the legacy is continuing ..

Because our pilot, who’s sits in the heavens knows we are just co-piloting. News break: we don’t really run the show as much as we think…

Life gets too busy when we attempt to take over the reigns.

Being Still… is a gift . Because… being still takes active intention, and  quite a bit of WORK!                                          

So… Be Still  and listen to your  little soul while you do.

Selah.