Sitting Until I Recognize God.

“I felt in need of a great pilgrimage
so I sat still for three days
And God came to me.”---Kabir

Feeling restless is an indication that I am in the most need of rest; it’s a curvy path to venture down when I attempt to journey out on my own.

How often when feeling restless do we feel the need to do something: to think, feel, act, respond, fix, build, do, process and analyze?

When I am overwhelmed and in great need for a pilgrimage—the search for a sacred place, meaning, or purpose I need to pause and sit still until God comes to me.

I was sitting at a Houston Rockets and Charlotte Hornets Basketball game one evening at the Charlotte Coliseum with a client. Out of the blue the client, for no particular reason and while pressing his index finger into the center of my left hand while cupping my hand in his, said to me, “Rick, when God wants you to have it, God will put it in the palm of your hand!”

Forcing solutions and the restlessness that results never is the answer. It is a sickness that stems from fear. I need to sit still and trust God with all my heart and lean not to my own understanding, but acknowledge God in everything I do and God will make my paths straight.

God is always here with me. Sometimes it just requires that I sit still for three days until I am still enough to recognize God’s presence.