...The way of holiness is not achieved through hurriedness, busy-ness, or instant production. The way of God is the way of waiting.
...For those of us who are rushing through our days at break-neck speed, an ordinary way of becoming holy may simply be to practice slowing down. Do the dishes more slowly in the morning, drive more slowly to work, handwrite a letter rather than pushing buttons quickly on a computer, walk from your car into the store more slowly, eat more slowly. These conscious acts of slowing down, ready your spirit for the moments of grace, moments that we might not see if we race by too swiftly.
http://www.explorefaith.org/time/fullness.html
2 comments:
Such good advice...thanks for the reminder. Sometimes I get wound up so tight, it takes days to relax!
yes, rocking a sick baby will cause you to seriously slow down! thank you, anne, for this - it's so hard for me sometimes to sit still and just be - something i've been learning through this lent season - and i can't thank you enough for introducing me to the explore faith site. i love it. a breath of fresh air for sure.
i like this: the way of God is waiting - that is an extremely hard lesson (i don't think we every really "learn" it - we're constantly working on it, yeah??) -henri nouwen wrote a very cool article about waiting - totally transformed my thoughts on it. i'll try to find it and send it to you! :)
love ya
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