Stillness makes listening possible. Yes, I can hear while my mind is busy, but stillness amplifies the ability of listening. Picture the pages on a Post-it note pad.

I bought one recently that seemed less expensive than the others. Come to find out all but one tiny edge has the Post-it adhesive on it. So they are really hard to take off the pad, or any place else you stick them.

Busy-ness, multi-tasking, mind racing is like that pad. It seems efficient at the time, but we really are only giving our attention to things halfway until we get totally stuck with less than quality results. That is what a prayer life without stillness equates to. Entering stillness is like pealing off those Post-it layers, methodically, intentionally.

In 1 Kings 19 God was not in the fire, or whirlwind or earthquake. God was in the still, small voice. It is terribly difficult to hear that voice when your heart and mind are all riled up!