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Quietude

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That’s what I’m going to call this thing that I need… This thing that helps me create. This thing that silences all the other voices so I can hear my own soul whisper out words of hope and imagination.
Quietude. When everything else needs no attention and brings no distraction. Quietude. The act of listening to all the sounds that stir from within when all around has been silenced.

It’s more than solitude. Solitude can still be active and noisy and distracting. Quietude brings calm and peace and space to think. Space to dream. Space to listen.

Quietude. That’s what brought me to write this post.
Do you have quietude in your life?

4. Listen

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  1. The click click click click of the ceiling fan
  2. The air-conditioner fighting to cool down the summer-day’s heat
  3. The swish swish swish of bare feet on carpet
  4. The faint as a mouse high-pitch squeak of the door opening
  5. Tap tap tap of each letter I type
  6. My breathing
  7. My mind wondering if God’s voice is somewhere down inside me
  8. The silence – the anticipatory silence of my soul

What do you hear when you really stop to listen?

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1. Solitude

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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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