May 11, 2023
Our Weekly Meditation
It was a pretty typical day: At the computer, music blaring, iPhone ringing, texts beeping. Then a voice said something very strange: “You have no center.”
The voice was right. I was throwing myself into all that activity in hopes of gaining ground on the day but I was, in truth, flailing.
My tennis instructor once watched me serve. Badly. Everything was off. “You’re rushing,” he said. “You didn’t stop, breathe, relax, see the court – then serve.” He, like the voice, was right. I had no center.
I turned off the music. I silenced the iPhone. I ignored the texts. I spun in my chair and stared out the window at the birds. For maybe a minute.
I didn’t pray. I didn’t meditate. I…just…sat…in…silence. And my center showed up about a minute later: silent, calm, focused, peaceful.
What was it again? Oh yeah! “Be still, and know that I am God.”
Indeed.
Pete Taft