Slow down: The Sacred Art of Stillness
Among The Lilies
Cameron Fradd
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🗓️ 10 August 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
In a culture that glorifies busyness and distraction, slowing down is countercultural—but it might just be essential for your soul. In this episode, reflect on Psalm 46:10: "Be still and know that I am God," and let it echo through the lens of Philippians 4:4–9. St. Paul calls us to "rejoice in the Lord always," to "let [our] reasonableness be known to everyone," and to "not be anxious about anything." How? By turning everything—our stress, our schedules, our restlessness—into prayer. "Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just… think about these things." • Why hurry is a spiritual threat • How the peace of God "which surpasses all understanding" can guard your heart and mind • Simple, daily practices for reclaiming silence, prayer, and presence This isn't about escaping the world—it's about waking up to the presence of God in the middle of it.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, I am coming to you live from Austria. Yeah, I am so happy to be here. This is such an |
| 0:10.4 | amazing, beautiful country. I don't think you can see the cartous. I can see the cartouser from |
| 0:14.6 | here, but y'all can't. It is a beautiful 12th century Carthusian monastery. I put up pictures last |
| 0:20.5 | year when we were here. And it's just beautiful. And yeah, 12th century Carthusian monastery. I put up pictures last year when we were here. |
| 0:21.6 | And it's just beautiful. And yeah, 12th century Carthusian monks lived here. And you could just kind of |
| 0:29.6 | feel the, you could feel that you're on holy ground. Like it's a peaceful presence. I don't know if you've |
| 0:36.6 | been to like a, I don't know if you've been to like a, |
| 0:38.4 | I don't know, a monastery or an apparition site or there are certain places where you're like, |
| 0:43.8 | huh, I can just really feel God here. He's very palpable. And I've just been working on my own |
| 0:51.0 | healing. As most of you know, my story, just trying to get my body healthy. |
| 0:55.0 | I have struggled a lot with sickness and, yeah, all sorts of autoimmune stuff and |
| 1:04.0 | chronic stuff. |
| 1:05.0 | And I've been trying to be better at sitting and being and resting. |
| 1:11.6 | And that's part of why I'm doing this video outside. |
| 1:13.6 | I like spending time outside and just being. |
| 1:17.6 | Where we moved in Florida, we are very blessed to have amazing birds year round in our backyard. |
| 1:24.6 | And it's so beautiful and so refreshing. |
| 1:28.1 | And here, I come sit out here first thing in the morning. |
| 1:31.0 | I try to come out and get barefoot in the ground, |
| 1:34.7 | put my feet in the ground and look at the sun |
| 1:37.4 | and just let the sun, let my body kind of soak in the sun. |
| 1:41.0 | And helping getting over jet lag, it's convenient, but I try to do it daily, even when I'm |
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