Being Still in The Storms of Life

Sunday 21st June 2009

As we are currently in Interregnum, we have a variety of visiting Clergy. Today we had Malcolm. He presented a most interesting discourse on Mark 4/5. He began with the Jesus Calms The Storm section of Mark 4 and built his sermon around Jesus’ words: “ Quiet be still”
Being still is absolutely essential for our Christian belief in the jarring tumult of the world. It is something that we ought to practice daily. We can do this either in structured way through daily prayer, or perhaps in the way of the early church by way of the Divine Office. In the 1929 prayer book, we have a wonderful resource to build up that spiritual head of steam in the mornings and evening.
Stillness is something that we really need to practice and it’s a good idea to meditate around a scripture. Psalm 46:10 advises: “Be still and know that I am God” or Isaiah 26:3. “perfect peace is to those whose mind is stayed on thee”. If we make those kind of scriptures part of our daily consciousness we can, like Jesus, still the storm and squalls that assail us as we pass through the world.