In today's responsorial psalm, we ask God how we can escape His spirit. The answer is that it is impossible to escape from God. God is everywhere: in the heavens above and the earth below, in the light and in the darkness, in the day and in the night, in the nether world and in the farthest limits of the sea, in the core of every human being, in all of creation, and in every situation we encounter here on earth!
Human beings try to escape God's sight and God's presence by keeping super busy. What the compulsive activist does not realize is that he or she is actually searching for his/her God! There is an insatiable hunger within each one of us to know God, find God and be with God. To achieve that goal, as far as humanly possible, one needs to withdraw from frenetic activity and enter into solitude. "Be still and know that I am God," God tells us in Psalm 46:10--The Jerusalem Bible).
When was the last time, you or I sat down quietly and listened to the stillness found, for instance, in nature, in churches, in a quiet place in our homes or on our decks, a place where we are not distracted by TV, i-phones, i-pads, computer games or any other gadget or addictive activity that we grab onto to escape the emptiness within and around us.
Let us, each day, choose to be quiet for 5-10 minutes to know that God is God and we are not! One of my retreat directors said to me: There is nothing more like God than solitude. Let us ask God for the grace to consciously seek Him above all in 5 or more minutes of solitude each day!
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