Mama Mare Coffee Minute Moment: Be Still and Bow your Head over the Coffee Pot

 

Usually our days, especially as moms, jump-start with toddlers/ children instantly jumping and playing (Mom! Have a tea party with me!). As moms, we try and run to the coffee pot to energize before the household energizes to maximum power. 

Before you pop a pod into your coffee machine of choice, stand there and bow your head for a peaceful minute. “Be still” before the day caffeinates with bouncy busyness. “Be still” before you “taste” the bitter or sweet day. 

When should we “Be still”? 

If your toddler is running through the house with their pink Minnie Mouse shopping basket (while dried macaroni slings and crushes into the carpet), calmly walk to a quiet spot. Kneel over your bathtub - be still. 

If your mind wanders from appointment to practice to dinner to naps. And if your mind travels like a Dr. Seuss rhyme, here, there to everywhere, bow your head over your steering wheel - be still. 

If a moment seems to be growing into a multitask mountain (laundry as big as Mt. Everest, children yelling, “Play bear!”, important phone call ringing, dinner steaming), sit down where God can be found - be still.

At the bouncy beginning, meddling middle, or end of the everlasting day, take time to be still. If you bow over the bathtub, coffee pot, or steering wheel, in that stillness you’ll find God. While your heart kneels, He’ll place a peaceful pod in your soul. 

Be still and know that I am God. Psalm 46:10