If we’re going to Selah, we have to be comfortable being alone. We have to find ways for our conscious thoughts to merge with our subconscious thoughts. This is best achieved when our minds become more inwardly focused than outwardly focused. To be inwardly focused, we must find time to eliminate external distractions. In short, we must find time for solitude. Real solitude:
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“Resist the urge to hang out with your cell phone…” LOL … I just got a new Blackberry….that’s impossible ROFL
I will be returning to this poem and watching it again…. I think I’ll do some of those
yeah – that cell phone sentence got me, as well.
I am so guilty of the hanging out with my cell phone!
I love this. Not that any of of this stuff is inherently “bad”, but I get so sucked into checking a certain webpage or that site and then refreshing my twitter screen, and cranking out an email — many times knowing that I might miss those critical chances to spend some time alone with God, with my thoughts. I drown out His whispers to my heart with stuff that’s at best, trivial compared to His words and promises for me. My favorite part of the poem is where Tonya says – “…If you have an art, practice it…” I neglect my love of music sometimes for such irrelevolant stuff — even though I know I get reprieve, peace, focus and a sense of tuning into His love for me by sitting down with the guitar; through writing; through reading; through talking with Him.
Thanks again for posting this Mandy!
-Joel
You’re welcome, Joel!
“be a testament”
Love that it ended with that line.
This is awesome!
Tanya Davis has captured the spirit of how I live almost perfectly, except for the cat of course.
Sounds like a peaceful life, Ed. And I LOVE cats, but Drew is allergic.
“Lonely is healing if you make it” I love that statement! I am single so I am alone a lot but I tend to hang out with my cell phone a lot. I’m gonna work on just being alone and see what I discover in the silence of being alone. Thank you for this.
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that was beautiful! so enchanting and captivating…..
I laughed a little when she suggested that the groups of people at tables in a restaurant would look at the person eating alone and wish they were them. THAT I can relate to!
An entire day alone would be an awesome gift.