Jonathon Brown

Songs from the Stillness

Arts & Literature

“Eugene Peterson suggested, ‘pastors are busy because they are vain or lazy.’ I’m pretty sure it’s not just pastors. We cram our calendars, at least in part, not because there’s so much to do but because there’s too much to avoid, so much out of control, more than we can handle. Busyness becomes a control mechanism in the chaos of our lives. In Songs from the Stillness Justin invites us into a different way, a stillness way, to acknowledge the enchantment of our world, to embrace the mystery available each moment, to wake up to our truest selves. As he puts it, to experience ‘the veil so thin that the glory of the quickly nearing kingdom’ might invade. Please don’t put this book as one of the numbers on your to do list to complete as a task, set it on top of your to do list to reorient your day.”