REFLECTION FROM WORDS FOR WORSHIP

Many of us know the Twenty-Third Psalm almost backwards it is so familiar to us. Perhaps, in our busy and frenetic world, its most poignant line is verse two, “He makes me lie down in green pastures; he leads me beside still waters.” We know, almost intuitively, that times of quietness when we can rest our bodies and minds are essential to our health. Yet, it often seems that so little of what we do in our church communities, particularly for those of us in the Protestant tradition of the Church, encourages quietness and contemplation. It is as if we think the whole of discipleship is about what we do and say. It is not. What might your faith community need to do or stop doing in order for people to be encouraged into quietness and contemplation?