Be Still

It's after lunch, and I’m grabbing a few minutes in the Hayes Barton Room at Overtoun House. Completed by past mission teams, the room is especially peaceful at the moment. On the other end of the house, the hubbub of last day tasks dominates the setting, but in here all is quiet and still. On the wall is stenciled Psalm 46:10: Be still, and know that I am God.


Being on a mission like this affords little opportunity to be still. Yet I suspect each of us has had at least a moment or two to stop and reflect on what it means to be the hands and feet of Christ on a journey like the one we have taken this past week. Watching a beautiful Scottish sunset from the roof last night, gazing out the window of one of the rooms we are working in to see a Scottish terrier rolling in the grass, meeting a local woman in a store and discovering that she was born at Overtoun House, receiving a note of thanks from an American college student named Rebecca who noted the love and faith of the Hayes Barton team members in their interactions with her.

God has sent us each on a mission, and each of us through mission work moves closer to discovering what that mission is. Sometimes we have to work from dawn to dusk to make the discovery. And, sometimes, we have to just be still.