Greeting Card - Be Still

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Item Number: 101

Card Dimensions: 5 1/2" x 7 3/4"

Front Cover: Picture printed within borders of paper embossed frame

Inside Bottom: Blank with watermark of picture on front cover

Inside Top: Artistic Reflections Message - Printed below

Included: Card and matching white envelope

Artistic Reflections Message:

"Be Still, and know that I am God."

"Be Still." Words whispered to a crying infant, words spoken to comfort a recent widow, words expressed to encourage the unemployed, words used to strengthen someone facing health concerns, words offered to anxious parents, words given to counsel a youth struggling with life decisions. "Be Still." Two simple words and yet they are words that God has used to apply to every situation that could occur in our life. The verse places the focus on God, the reason that we may be still. Reflect on the painting on the front cover. The artist has wonderfully captured a moment of peacefulness, calmness, stillness, and silence. Of course, you say, there are no people in the painting to introduce human unrest! That is the beauty of the verse and of the painting. The focus in not to be on ourselves. Had the artist placed a person in the picture, then we would focus on him or her. But God wants our focus to be on Him. I ask you now to picture yourself and God sitting in the two garden chairs having a quiet conversation. Did you notice that your mind did not focus on the chair that you were sitting in, but rather the chair that you pictured your Lord in? Forgetting about ourselves and focusing on God is what brings stillness and calmness in our lives. However, life is not always a calm and peaceful place to meet with God which is why the artist has appropriately included the open door to the home where the resident has most likely left his chair to meet a challenge or accomplish a chore. Once again, both chairs are empty. God is not only with us in the calmness, but He joins us in our everyday life even when it may be chaotic or lonely. It is in all circumstances that God whispers to us, "Be still, and know that I am God."