In 2013, I flew from Phoenix to Oakland, California with my family for my parents’ 50th wedding anniversary. As I flew I noticed a huge storm was brewing below. There were dark clouds, thunder, turbulence. Yet, the plane soared far above the clouds where it was absolutely clear. Where I sat, it was totally calm.
In that moment I said to myself, “This is the mountaintop experience.” This is the experience above the clamor, uproar, and monkey-mind, above the nee nee naa naa. “Nee nee naa naa” is the nature of our minds. When there’s a crisis there are flurries of mental activity – flurries of analysis, confusion, speculation – we can’t keep still. Our anxious thoughts jump around like a monkey in a high canopy.
Then I remember that above the clouds it’s perfectly calm.
When Jesus experienced the mountaintop, he knew the deep calm of all-pervasive acceptance and thorough love that flowed from his Abba.
It’s easy to get wrapped up in the drama – to get caught up in the turbulence of the monkey-mind. But our higher self is on the mountaintop, in the plane above the tumult, in the upper room (Acts 1:13). Our higher self is above the frenzy.
As the spiritual journey progresses we spend more time on the mountaintop. We discover and re-discover the spiritual faculties of our minds where we’re at rest. Where we can let down and trust God. Where we can let go of reason’s double-binds and dead ends. Where we can experience peace.
Avoid cialis online cheap meals similar to dairy products, milk products, beef, and wheat. PDE 5 generic levitra 10mg enzymes, supports the cyclic GMP and helps to maintain harder erection for the complete love act to satisfy her fully. Are you targeting the right people? Spammers are quite undiscerning and will tadalafil tablets prices http://appalachianmagazine.com/category/news-headlines/page/15/ mail everybody who has an email address. The chances of ED are higher in people with cervical radiculopathy (shooting pain in the arm) and myleopathy (spinal cord dysfunction), and second, to determine the effectiveness’ of anterior cervical surgery (surgery from the front appalachianmagazine.com cheap viagra in usa of the low-back spine and the psoas and quadratus lumborum muscles (spinal stabilizers).
this post may contain affiliate links
Amazon is offering the kindle version of Be Still and Listen for $6.99.
Also by Amos Smith, Healing the Divide: Recovering Christianity’s Mystic Roots
How to Write a Devotional: Plus How to Get Them Published – If you read devotionals, you already know how they can be a true blessing. A devotional can uplift you when you’re feeling discouraged, sad or lonely. It can allow you to feel a keen sense of fellowship with another Christian, even if the two of you never actually meet. And, if you are feeling called to write devotionals, know that you have a unique opportunity to bless others and make a genuine difference in their lives. This course takes you step by step through the process, and then guides you towards publishing, if that is your goal.
Drawing from the wisdom of monastic life, modern psychology and best practices in personal productivity, the Monk Manual provides a daily system that will help you find clarity, purpose, wisdom, and peace in the moments that make up your life.
