Stillness.

Currently I am sitting in a quiet apartment, soaking up a time of stillness and rest before the busyness begins. I don't know what the coming year will look like, but I presume the word "busy" will be common in my vocabulary when someone asks "how are you doing?". Even though busyness may be a coming reality, I pray that I won't define my life by that term. I have done that in the past and I remember specifically the Lord showing me that there are much more interesting parts of myself than the fact that I am busy. It is easy to glorify busyness and I desperately don't want to find my worth in what I am doing/accomplishing/not accomplishing. Thus, I know the only way to move away from that tempting and dangerous mindset is setting time aside to be still. To abide in the Father and soak my mind in the truth of His word, daily. To renounce the lie that "I am what I do". I know the whole daily pursuit of stillness and abiding is not easy. My flesh is weak and resists it. That is why I am praying for strength now, for I know the exchange of times of solitude for things such as social media is not worth it. Ever.