Pause
November 16, 2007 by col4man
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Love days like today when I can step back from the race of life and simply spend some to pause, reflect and enjoy chilling out with God. Doesn’t happen nearly as often as it should, but really feel the benefit of it when it does. Haven’t blogged in a while, been busy with the various stuff i’m involved in, and work has been somewhat hectic. Days, weeks and months pass me by and too often I fail to hit the button, step back, pause and reflect on life.
So todays one of those days, spending abit of time planning some youthwork stuff, but realising increasingly it’s out of the fullness (or at times emptiness) of my relationship with God that my witness is borne. So todays an attempt to slow down, pause, reflect and re-connect with a loving father who yearns for me to do just that.
Amen!
I think all of us have the same problem, i mean as Christian we aught to spend time with God as our intimate moment with HIM and sometimes to we neglected it. I’m pretty sure God doesn’t want us to think that this is a duty but an act of LOVE.
Thanks for the beautiful insight…
God Bless You!
The neat thing is…as busy as we become, when we find our way to him…he has not changed.
Great website! God be with you on your Journey.
I really liked what you said here, “…out of the fullness (or at times emptiness) of my relationship with God that my witness is borne.” I so desire fullness, I thought just for the benefit of my own life, but it’s also a better witness isn’t it.
With the fast-pace of today’s western civilization, every day should be an opportunity to slow down, pause, reflect and re-connect. Slow should become the new fast. I was born and brought up in Africa where slow is the norm. No one has mastered the art of living slow like the people in my rural village on the shores of Lake Victoria in Western Kenya. Life is luxury for them. Their motto is “Hurry, hurry, has no blessing”. When I came to the United States in 2001, I was astounded at the pace of life. I remember going to a grocery store during my first week when I was not yet familiar with the currency. I had a ton of coins and bills which I pulled out of my pocket and started counting slowly in front of the clerk. His look, and that of the customers behind me, could have melted a glacier! But the truth is that our fast-paced life is melting glaciers in real life. The industrial revolution, in it’s quest for better and faster, has hastened the melting of glaciers immensely.
Given the fast pace of life, what is the future of mankind? We have a choice for high velocity or slowness. My position is that slow is cool. We all need to apply the brakes. Stress levels are rising because of the speed at which we drive our lives. Human contact has become fleeting, at best. We don’t connect any more because we are rushing for the next event. It’s time to embrace our “inner snail”. The inner snail’s motto is this: “slow and steady wins the race”. Let’s send more letters than emails, ride more bikes than drive cars, use the crock-pot rather than the microwave, visit friends and chat instead of sending text messages and make love with the person that we have chosen to take the time to slowly get to know instead of have rapid quickies. Great post! I enjoyed reading.