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• Illustration: Killinger tells of visiting a cathedral in Paris. While throngs of tourists moved through the church, a peasant woman, dressed in black, quietly prayed, ignoring the crowds. She had found stillness, and was meeting God.

• We take so little time to be quiet.
• Our lives are kept upset by the things coming into them, constant interruptions.
  -Illustration: Killinger once asked Sister Corita Kent, a nun known as a leader of worship, to help lead worship services. He received a postcard a few days later that simply said, "Dear, I am trying to be quiet. S. Corita."

• Illustration: On a visit to Ireland, Killinger and his wife stayed in a remote B&B where "it was so quiet we could hear the bees humming off in the fields… . That stillness entered our hearts. We felt as if we were at the very center of mystery."
• We can get in touch with that kind of stillness and be healed.
• Even though we have "information overload" today, we don't know very much.

• What more ultimate thing could there be to know? What more perfect knowledge?
  - Illustration: A British RAF pilot in WWII was returning home, but cloud cover had him worried. He couldn't find his way or even find his radio signal. When he was almost out of fuel, he found the signal and his way home.
• We're all trying to pick up signals that tell us what direction to go.
  - That's the promise of Psalm 46:10: If we're still, God shows us the way home.
  - Illustration: In Brooklyn Heights, a woman found a bench that overlooks Manhattan and the bay. In a difficult time in her life, that bench became a place of stillness for her, a place of healing.

• "Be still and know that I am God." When we know that, everything is all right.