Selah

The majority of you reading this would probably agree on the fact that our society is speed-centered; we live in America in a heightened age of technology, where our cars zoom at breakneck speed, our internet is delivered seamlessly, work is a pressure to get things done swiftly and properly and Type A personality seems to reek from our nation. Not to say that things done swiftly and in order always a bad thing, but it seems to have also permeated into our lives; we grow up quick, we fall in love quick, we snatch up a job or a car or whatever we want to buy on impulse, our marriages burn out quick and I know very few people who could appreciate a "slow life" so to speak. People live on the edge, play fast and hard, hate to deal with what's slow, and it leaves me wondering...

Why?

Take a second and stop yourself. Look at the room around you. Look at your hands, realize how they move, take a look outside and enjoy the view. A lot of people take these minor things for granted, but I'm encouraging you... stop for a second every once in a while and smell the roses. Or daffodils or lilacs or mold whatever you've got growing around your home. Just stop for a moment in time and realize what it is you could be appreciating. God made a beautiful world and He put us in it to tend for it and take care of it, originally, and unfortunately many of us get sucked into a fast-forward machine of work and play and errands and business, quick to trample one another along the way or blow folks off or not care for one another.

I don't write this to encourage laziness, but I do write it to encourage you all to take a step back from things once in a while and see. Take a second to help each other and to realize where you at, and even to take care of your own needs as well. Sure, chase the bigger picture and go fast when it's appropriate, but don't forget to remember to, every once in a while, take a step back and check yourself, and remember God, lest you lose sight of what's important.