When Stillness Becomes Your Strength
And you choose to stay still.
That's power most of us haven't learned to access yet.
This Sunday, we're exploring stillness in ways that might surprise you. The kind of stillness that changes lives happens in unexpected places: grief circles, freedom rides, community meetings thick with tension, and yes—even while washing dishes.
There is within me now a place of perfect stillness. It is the very nature of the Life that breathes me into being. In this moment, I recognize that strength lives in the sacred pause—the space where wisdom organizes itself, where clarity finds its form, where the body remembers its own path to peace. I trust the stillness within me. I trust its many doorways. I trust its perfect timing. And so I rest in this knowing: the strength I seek is already here, already whole, already mine. And so it is.
What if the strength you've been seeking lives in the many forms of purposeful pause?
Stillness has more doorways than we've been taught. Traditional seated meditation is beautiful and transformative for many. And there are other pathways equally powerful, equally sacred.
We'll discover how Dr. Bessel van der Kolk found that trauma survivors often access stillness through gentle, repetitive motion—how rhythm becomes a doorway when it's needed most.
We'll witness how John Lewis trained his body to contain rage and fear while staying centered on his vision—creating the kind of stillness that becomes resistance, that changes history.
We'll sit in the listening circles Wilma Mankiller used to lead her people through crisis—honoring the complexity that deserves time to unfold, letting wisdom arise from the pause between urgent voices.
And we'll discover what grief counselor Francis Weller knows: sometimes the most healing thing we can offer another person (or ourselves) is simply to stay present with what hurts, holding space without rushing toward resolution.
Science of Mind teaches that there's a presence within us that is permanently at rest, permanently active, and permanently available. We each access it in our own way. Some of us find it in meditation. Others in movement. Some in witness. Some in resistance. All of these are valid. All of these are powerful.
On the longest night of the year, when the world itself slows and releases its grip on light, we're invited to discover which doorways to the strength of stillness call to us.
You might find a practice you've never considered before. You might recognize yourself in one of these stories. You might leave with permission to honor the way stillness already shows up in your life.
Join us this Saturday, December 21st, 2025, at 9 or 11 am
In person or on our YouTube channel
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