This holiday season, it’s so easy to get all wrapped up in business, I mean busy-ness.  Yes, there’s the business of gifts.  The business of making money to pay for all the gifts.  The business of making ends meet.

There’s the busy-ness of celebrating loved ones.  The busy-ness of hosting holiday parties and good cheer.  The busy-ness of shopping.  It’s too easy to get all lost in it all; and especially easy to lose sight of yourself, and forget who has made life possible – God.

In all this holiday preparations and celebrations, it’s vitally important to take a moment and find some peace.  It’s essential to remember the “reason for the season.”

Take a moment to “be still and know that I am God.”  Be still for a moment.  Take a break for silence, and prayer.  Let the busy-ness subside for a time, and just stop and breathe.  Let that Psalm really sink in to you innermost you.  Be still.  Know that “I am God.”

That’s what Moses heard from God on Mt. Sinai, when he asked God to reveal Himself and to tell him what name should he called.  “I Am that I Am,” God said.  So when you say “be still and know that I Am God,” you are walking with God.  In every breath you take.  In every thought that you think.  In every action you take.  Know that you are with God.