a quite heart

While reading the Psalms these words captivated me - “I have cultivated a quiet heart.” Out of context, I know, but the idea of a quiet heart struck me as amazing, beautiful, and sadly, uncommon, at least in my life lately. Lately…I wonder if I have I ever known it. I read those words again and again and then the next line, “Like a baby content in its mother’s arms, my soul is a baby content.”

My mind would say that life leaves little room for quietness. Things must be done. Quite is a sacrifice laid upon the alter of the god of accomplishment. But the Truth, thank God for it, moves beyond my arguments. It seems I have misunderstood quietness, mistaking it for neutrality or even inertia. Oh, but how horrible it would be if the only people fortunate enough to possess a quite heart were those who attempted nothing at all! No, there must be more to it than that. Perhaps quite is borne, not from lack of activity, but by presenting life as a whole and in detail to Christ. It sounds so simple. It is not.