Be Still and Know, My Experience Now

I've read that verse in the Bible so very many times. Or I've had it read to me. I was raised by Christian parents who exposed me to church very young. I don't remember ever not having some level of relationship with God, and it always evolving. Church as I knew it was a really wonderful thing. Yes of course people stumbled and fell but we learned to deepen our compassion through those times. In my experience with the people I was blessed to grow around, the essence of my church experience was Love and it was genuine. It was about community, digging deep into the Bible, really trying to know Him and so we can Be like Him. It involved me in service, and the privilege and responsibility of leading worship through music as my expression of Love. "Be still and know I am God." We read this verse,(then and now in the churches I was raised in)and go on to think and talk about God as if that was the Knowing, and finish with no instruction or guidance on how exactly to be Still. I believe this mental knowing of God served me well in my relationship with the Divine Love, but it was only one dimensional. In my life so far I have found meditation a beautiful way to embody this hardly explainable Knowing of the I Am, and that is through stillness; truly and carefully taking the time to still all the systems of the body, including the incredibly freeing practice of quieting my thoughts. And in that, moving my attention to the very present moment and resting in the stillness there, because in my experience that is where you meet the unwordaable. Some people try to word it and although it cannot be compared to the felt sense of Divine Love in the present time, I find their wordings to be very beautiful. I like that story of the Zen master who was asked by a student how to acheive enlightenment, and he responded only by holding a single finger in the air, because in his profound experience that was as clear an explanation it could have. I believe that 'achieving' is the practice or the journey, meditation being the foundation for that. I would encourage an open mind to other labels of thought, because I believe God is bigger than a label, and bigger than thought. I have found in my personal meditation practice I can reach moments that are pureley Still, and out of that comes the true Knowing that requires no thought. The physical and soul experience of Christ in me. I experience Oneness with everything and Love is the only thing that exists. The more I "be still and know I Am" and rest in that space, the more I want to do it. The practice of quieting the systems and the especially exhausting practice of quieting the mind can be challenging and may even be impossible for the first few tries, but with every stretch we stretch farther. Once we can be Still and allow this Knowing to Be, to embody present moment Love, there is no need for the knowlege of good and evil, because out of this stillness right action and living will come. This embodiment of Love changes the states of our bodies and consequently our world around us in a very physical, tangible, and even now scientifically meausurable way. This experience is not only available to all beings, it is our birthright. "Nothing I say can explain to you Divine Love, yet all of creation cannot seem to stop talking about it." -Rumi