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Bee Still

Stillness…ceasing activity…seems a funny practice to learn from a bee! Quivering, flurry-filled movement, constant query from flower-to-flower, our apiary friends whiz around the garden in buoyant whirs of wings….let current works to welcome pollinators to our gardens usher us into a deeper spiritual blessing in the command to Be Still.

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by Shelley S. Cramm In: Biblical Feasts, Garden Moments on Sep 24, 2020

Stillness…ceasing from activity…seems a funny practice to learn from a bee! Quivering, flurry-filled movement, constant query from flower-to-flower, our apiary friends whiz around the garden in buoyant whirs of wings. Their buzzing, soundings so similar to the word “busy,” is their unending refrain, a baseline reverberating that might otherwise hustle us along a haphazard, frenzied pace of garden chores and work life.

Except for the Lord’s command: Be Still.

Be-e still? A play on words possible only among English-speakers—are we prone to be the most fanatic, in need of such warning? Do we aspire to productivity beyond passion’s sustenance, causing apprehension and angst, more than other people-groups?

I don’t think I have ever noticed a bee being still, but I know it would require me to desist my desires and quiet my thoughts long enough to follow a little fuzzy flyer until he finally rested, hmmmm. Would I eventually spy the bee doing likewise as I would be, pausing among the posies, resting in the Presence?

These Days of Awe, from Yom Teruah to Yom Kippur, inspire a practice of resting and reflection. As always, I am convinced a garden is the place to go at such a time as this…well, for all time, really! Let the land buzzing with loveliness return us to God and His Word.

bee hardly be still on garlic chive flowers

Cease striving and know that I am God;
Psalm 46:10 NASB

Surrender your anxiety! Be silent and stop your striving and you will see that I am God.
Psalm 46:10 TPT

Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!
Psalm 46:10 NKJV

blooming hyssop a favorite for bees, which never be still!

The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still.
Exodus 14:14 NIV

Adonai will do battle for you. Just calm yourselves down!
Exodus 14:14 CJB

The Lord will fight for you, and you shall hold your peace.
Exodus 14:14 NKJV

The Lord is fighting for you! So be still!
Exodus 14:14 GW

bee buzzing up to a dandelion flower be still

He got up, rebuked the wind and said to the waves, “Quiet! Be still!” Then the wind died down and it was completely calm.
Mark 4:39 NIV

Jesus: Be still. It is I. You have nothing to fear.
Matthew 14:27 VOICE

Prayer: O Lord, You see the whirl of work I am in; You hear the hazing headlines; and You know the chaos trying to close in. In the face of these advances, You advise me to Be Still. Release my anxiety-driven attempts to your everlasting promise, you say (Psalm 139:24). Crossover from a dead-end existence to your forever-free life, you offer (John 5:24). Bless me to stop buzzing long enough to discern how to translate this Spiritual guidance into earthy, daily life practice. May I trust You to fight on my behalf, to show me more about you, and to expect your arrival.

God's Word for Gardeners Bible in herbs

Find similar devotions in God’s Word for Gardeners Bible on Peace, from the Garden Tools section, beginning on page a-40

bee with dainty aspaagus flowers

Click here for more articles on pollinators in the garden in the Devotions Blog

CJB notes Scripture quotations taken from the Complete Jewish Bible by David H. Stern. Copyright © 1998. All rights reserved. Used by permission of Messianic Jewish Publishers, 6120 Day Long Lane, Clarksville, MD 21029. www.messianicjewish.net.
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  1. Charlotte

    September 25, 2020 at 4:48 pm

    Such a great reminder in the midst of our sometimes crazy world! Love this scripture.

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    • Shelley S. Cramm

      October 8, 2020 at 11:47 am

      Thank you, your faithful reading is such a gift!! Glad to enjoy GOd’s Word together!!

      Reply

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