I need to slow down. Can you feel me on this one? Ever feel like you need more time? We have all felt this persistent pang that time is running out or slipping away from us somehow. There’s such foolish wisdom in that, isn’t there, because time is what we all have . . . right now. It is a gift we are given each day to make something of. It is impossible to find time, because you already have it.
I think every one of us ought to have the "Slow, Children at Play" sign prominently displayed either in our rear view mirror, bathroom mirror, or on the front door – wherever you look when you rush through your day onto whatever you think is so importantly waiting for you. Children know how to handle time; how to mold it and shape it to their whimsy and imagination. They teach us that the only way to travel is slowly.
Time ages us, infusing in us wisdom and beauty. Time is sacred. God blessed each day and made it holy; each precious moment is strung together. I don’t believe God commands us to “Hurry up” anywhere in Scripture. In fact, He is almost always telling us to wait. It’s in the waiting, the silence, that we can begin to hear.
“Remind me each day
That the race is not always to the swift;
That there is more to life
Than increasing its speed.
That the race is not always to the swift;
That there is more to life
Than increasing its speed.
Let me look upward
Into the branches of the towering oak
And know that it grew great and strong
Because it grew slowly and well.
Into the branches of the towering oak
And know that it grew great and strong
Because it grew slowly and well.
Slow me down, Lord,
And inspire me to send my roots deep
Into the soil of life's enduring values
That I may grow toward the stars
Of my greater destiny.”
And inspire me to send my roots deep
Into the soil of life's enduring values
That I may grow toward the stars
Of my greater destiny.”
~ excerpt from Wilferd A. Peterson Slow Me Down Lord
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