Have you ever been in a place and time doing a certain thing (Aren’t these hypothetical intros great?) when you suddenly realized that you were living out something you read? That happened to me today and I want to share it with you.

This morning started with me walking to the church to finish something in the office. Even when you take the day off, it doesn’t mean that you can forget everything, especially when you live right next door to the place you work. In the office, all of the things that I could possibly be doing welcomed me and beckoned my attention. Really, I enjoy what I do so much that I think the smell of the office is enough to give me a small high. Don’t know if there’s anybody else like me out there. The temptation to stay and do something was great, but I knew that I must be going home.

Soon, I decided to leave and went directly to the house. Since then, we have done nothing but laugh, talk, watch movies and play together. Sitting on the couch with my wife and son next to me, I began to feel alive. It was a strange feeling because I’m not doing anything like work. I am busy being. Just being.

Being a husband. Being a dad. Being a man.

Sometimes we have to stop doing and simply be. As I sat there being, I realized that I was living what I read here in the fourth psalm:

Stand in awe, and sin not: commune with your own heart upon your bed, and be still. Selah. (Vs. 4)

May we all find ourselves living what we read.