There are days when my fingers hover over the keyboard, the screen stares back blankly, and I tell myself, “Be still.” But I smile even as I say it, because I know “stillness” isn’t about sitting motionless like a marble statue in a yoga class that’s run out of music. It’s not about shutting out the noise of the world with scented candles, massages, or meditative breathing. That kind of stillness is surface calm — the kind that lasts till the next honking rickshaw or phone notification.

The stillness I’m talking about is an inner one — a calm that refuses to be shaken by chaos, fear, or even the nagging thought that your column’s deadline was yesterday. It’s the stillness that comes not from holding your breath, but from releasing what’s been choking you — grudges, fears, the unhealed wounds….

Do read the interview of the author by Christianity Today, America’s most widely read Christian mag, with a circulation of over 2.2 million:  https://www.christianitytoday.com/2025/09/india-columnist-robert-clements-christian-writing/ 

….you’ve been polishing for years like trophies.

To be still, truly still, is to empty the mind. And emptying the mind isn’t about forgetting; it’s about forgiving. It’s about letting go of the bitterness that eats into your soul like rust on iron. It’s about reconciling with the past, not by editing it, but by embracing it with grace. It’s about facing the mountain of problems before you and realizing you don’t have to climb it alone.

And that’s when it happens — the surrender. The moment you stop fighting to control the world and instead hand over the reins to the One who made it. The Bible doesn’t say, “Be still and find yourself.” It says, “Be still, and know that I am God.” There’s a world of difference between the two. Finding yourself can end up being an endless treasure hunt through self-help books. Knowing God, however, brings you to the treasure — peace that no amount of worldly wisdom can purchase.

That’s the secret: stillness isn’t something we create; it’s something we allow.

We let God bring it into us. When we surrender our cleverness, our anxiety, our compulsive need to fix every broken thing, He steps in. And then — oh then — the noise dies down, not because the world got quieter, but because our hearts did.

As a writer, I’ve often found that the more I push my imagination, the more confused I become. The words scatter like frightened pigeons. But when I pause, surrender, and allow that divine stillness to settle, the words return — not forced, but flowing. Scenes form, ideas bloom, and thoughts take shape in ways I know are not mine alone.

Stillness, I’ve realized, isn’t impractical spirituality — it’s the most practical thing I know.

When I surrender, I don’t lose control; I connect to a superior power, and gain clarity.

When I stop striving, I start creating.

So today, if your mind’s racing faster than your Wi-Fi, maybe it’s time to unplug and let God plug in.

Be still, knowing…..

 And you’ll find that the One who wants you to know about Himself, has been waiting for you all along…!

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