“Be Still and Know That I am God” | Shayla Bott | March 2026
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🗓️ 10 March 2026
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Slowing helps us uncover who we really are under all the worldly influences that sometimes permeate our minds and hearts and focus on our Savior Jesus Christ, who is mighty to save.
Shayla Bott, Associate Dean of Faculty and the Chair of the Department of Dance at Brigham Young University, delivered this devotional address on March 10, 2026. You can access the full talk here.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the recent speeches podcast presented by BYU Speaches, featuring inspiring new |
| 0:06.3 | devotionals and forums given each week on BYU campus. Be sure to check out our other podcasts |
| 0:12.5 | by searching BYU speeches wherever you get your podcasts or by visiting speeches.bYU.edu slash |
| 0:20.3 | podcasts. This devotional address entitled, Be Still and |
| 0:25.1 | Know that I Am God, was given on March 10th of 2026 by Shayla Bott, Associate Dean of Faculty and |
| 0:31.5 | the Chair of the Department of Dance at Brigham Young University. Good morning. I'm grateful to be here with this community of Disciple Scholars. |
| 0:41.3 | Being a fellow citizen with you in the kingdom of God is a joy for me. |
| 0:46.3 | When I was in graduate school, I took a course titled Philosophy and Aesthetics. |
| 0:50.3 | In the course, we studied the work of anthropologist Ellen DeSanayaka, and her definition of art as making special. |
| 0:58.4 | The concept of art as making special is a framework to broaden the definition of art beyond traditional notions of beauty and skill. |
| 1:08.1 | This frames art as a fundamental human behavior that elevates ordinary objects, activities, and skill. This frames art as a fundamental human behavior that elevates ordinary objects, |
| 1:13.6 | activities, and ideas to a realm of special significance by adding value, meaning, or beauty. |
| 1:21.6 | This definition of art emphasizes the behavior or activity used to create an object with extra |
| 1:28.1 | care or meaning rather than the object itself, thereby separating art from commerce, |
| 1:33.9 | commodities, and ownership. By this definition, art is everywhere. There are many ways we can |
| 1:41.7 | choose to make both tangible and intangible things special in our lives, |
| 1:46.0 | but today I want to focus on how we can be artful in our living by making our time special. |
| 1:53.0 | Time is a foundational element in exercising our agency to pursue that which is good. |
| 1:59.0 | Norman Rockwell's painting, Lift Up Thine Eyes, is just as reflective |
| 2:03.6 | of our time as it is of 1957, when it was originally painted. It is a great depiction of what American |
| 2:10.6 | physician Larry Dassey calls time sickness, which describes the compulsive belief that time is getting away, that there isn't enough of it, |
| 2:20.2 | and that you must pedal faster and faster to keep up. We are enslaved by speed and yet experience |
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