Stillness & Listening…

I’ve been quieter than usual these past couple of weeks ~ not absent, still creating, still tending to my work and the practical rhythms of selling art ~ but choosing silence and stillness more intentionally.

I’ve been sitting with prayer, journaling (as I always do), and mindful meditation, allowing space for listening rather than answering.

In all of that the whispers have gotten louder than ever before to get intentional with allowing stillness to take me where it’s never taken me before.

I feel that these whispers aren’t about being absent but fully about being present to deeper attention regarding my art.

This deeper level of stillness through attention is not an empty time, it’s building stronger foundations of what my art truly means for all that see it and for how it can help them move along their paths.

This step into an even stiller life - may not offer me any answers however I do believe it has already started to give me back the ability to stay with my thoughts , feelings and each piece of art that I create a little while longer.

That’s the preface of this deepened understanding of being still with art whilst the world screams “hustle”.

So I’m sharing these thoughts this morning as a quiet invitation ~ for you to journey with me as I step away for a while, into a place where nothing competes

except what is needed.

As you wander alongside me,

I’ll continue to share entries here ~ not on a schedule,

not with an agenda, but as they arrive.

What comes will come.

And we’ll meet it together,

with a little more stillness.

A Prayer

Jesus,

You who call Your friends away

not to abandon the world

but to see it more clearly,

Lead me into the quiet places

where nothing competes for my attention

except what is needed.

Teach me to rest without guilt,

to listen without urgency,

to stay a little longer

with what You place before me

a thought, a feeling, a canvas, a breath.

May this stillness not empty me,

but deepen me.

May it return my cup full,

not for keeping,

but for giving.

As I step into this quieter way,

let what is becoming

arrive in its own time.

Amen.

“A resting place, for a little while.”