God: Here and Now Fully Present

After an especially busy time in my life, I sort of hit a wall with all of the planning and scheduling I was doing. There was so much logistical business and organization that my head had simply become numb.

These are the points I tend to arrive at where I feel as if I am consumed with so much of the wrong things: planning, organizing, scheduling, orienting, training, task-ing, logisticizing ad infinitum … ad nauseam.

And so, in that place, I took some time to, as the psalmist writes, be still and know that He is God (Psalm 46:10). Here is a brief glimpse into some of what I wrote that day.

So I stop. The trees are rustling with leaves in the cautious breeze. Dry grass warns of autumn’s approach: the long shadow will soon paint over fallen leaves and bare trees.

And the rustling leaves in wind’s hands capture me again. That voice I heard earlier today in five or six minutes of sheer quiet, it echoes in my inner ear again: “I am already here.”

[abrupt pause.]

What do I need to do? What words could I speak? What thoughts are even necessary here and now?

None. Nothing.

“No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love Him” (1 Corinthians 2:9).

And that – all of that – is here and now fully present – richly alive and bursting – in Him.

He is already here.