The Secret Healing I Found in Stillness
I never planned to become friends with stillness. If I’m honest, I spent years avoiding it. I filled every moment with doing, scrolling, planning, helping, building, fixing—believing that constant motion was the path to significance, purpose, and even spiritual depth.
But I was tired. Soul tired.
And in the quiet moments when I dared to pause, I felt God gently whispering:
“Come away with Me. Be still.”
At first, stillness felt like a punishment. Like I was being benched in a season where I desperately wanted to prove myself. But what I didn’t realise was that God wasn’t punishing me; He was healing me.
The Invitation to Stop
When I took a social media break, I thought it would just be a detox. I didn’t realise it would become a doorway to rest, healing, and rediscovering who I am outside of performance.
The first few days felt like withdrawal. My mind raced, my hands reached for my phone instinctively, and I felt like I was missing out.
But slowly, the noise began to clear.
I could hear myself think.
I could hear God’s voice.
I could see where I had been running on empty, trying to pour out when I was dry, serving others while neglecting my own soul.
Stillness Exposed What Busyness Hid
In the quiet, I realised how much I equated my worth with my productivity. How much I feared letting people down. How I found comfort in being “needed” rather than simply being known by God.
Stillness revealed the hurried places in my heart that needed His peace. It showed me the hidden griefs I had buried under ministry and motherhood. It uncovered dreams I had silenced because I was too busy to even acknowledge them.
And in that gentle exposure, God met me.
Healing in the Quiet
Stillness taught me that I don’t have to strive to be loved.
That I don’t have to perform to be accepted.
That God is not in a rush, and neither should I be.
As I learned to sit in silence, to walk without my phone, to journal with tears rolling down my face, to breathe deeply in God’s presence, healing came.
The kind of healing that doesn’t always look like a big miracle moment but a quiet mending of the soul.
I found freedom in simply being God’s daughter.
I found rest in knowing He is in control.
I found clarity in pausing long enough to hear His instructions.
The Fruit of Stillness
Today, I am still learning. I still feel the pull to rush, to prove, to strive.
But I have tasted the beauty of stillness, and I cannot go back.
Stillness has healed me by reminding me:
- My worth is not in what I do, but Whose I am.
- Rest is not laziness; it is obedience.
- God speaks in the quiet if I am willing to listen.
A Gentle Invitation
If you are tired, if your soul feels worn and thin, if you are afraid to stop because you don’t know who you are without the doing—may I gently encourage you:
Choose stillness.
Take five minutes to sit in silence today.
Take a walk without your phone.
Write down what you hear God whispering in the quiet.
Your healing may be waiting in the stillness.
Because, dear friend, it’s in the quiet that God’s love becomes loudest.
🙏🏾 May you find grace and stillness today, and in that stillness, may you find your healing too.
