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We can slow down these lives of ours.
But it won't happen by itself.
It takes conscious effort, and conscious choice:
See what is really important,
and concentrate on that.
Let the distractions fade,
the unnecessary appendages fall away.
Then life will be a blessing
and not a curse.
When we discern what it is we are here to do,
then we can do our jobs well,
from the fullness of our beings.
Then we won't be spending all our time
putting out other people's fires
and tilting at other people's windmills.
We will be serving them instead
as ourselves
genuinely
from the core of who we are.
To find what it is we're after,
why we're here,
to focus on what we need to do
one needs to take time:
time to stop, to look within,
to listen to the voice of the Spirit,
ever-there, but usually
drowned out or covered over
by some false imitation voice.
Time weighs heavily
if we always live according to schedules, timetables, and have-to-do lists.
If we live that way, we drag ourselves from one meeting to the next.
But when we are in harmony with our times,
in balance with the days of our living,
then we skip and jump down the street,
across the parking lot,
as though we were young again,
as though the weight we carry
was as light as a feather,
a feather on the very breath of God.
jbs
1/23/00 - 9/17/04
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