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A Gift from Our Family to Yours
May 3, 2026 - For the Church at the St. John Church of Christ
Spiritual Discipline: Slowing
A friend of mine tells me of how the Word of God came to her one day through her four-year-old daughter. The mother was busy hurrying her daughter out the door when the little girl replied, “Mommy. Stop! Why are we always in a hurry when we never go anywhere important?” The little girl intuitively knew that hurry got in the way of what was important. Life is too precious to miss, and the faster we go the more likely we are to miss what really matters.
Slowing is the desire to curb my addiction to busyness, hurry, and workaholism; to learn to savor the moment. Slowing is one way to overcome inner hurriedness and addiction to busyness. Through slowing, we can taste the present moment in its fullest. We can get so busy doing “urgent” things and so preoccupied with what comes next that we don’t experience now. Afraid of being late, we rush from the past to the future. The present moment becomes a crack between what we did and what we have yet to do. It is virtually lost to us. We don’t get to our futures any faster if we hurry. And we certainly don’t become better people in haste. More likely than not, the faster we go the less we become.
Slowing is a way we counter our culture’s mandate to tend to the bottom line, to move it or lose it, to constantly be on the go. It is a way we honor our limits and the fact that God is found in the present moment. Through slowing we intentionally develop margins in our lives that leave us open to all the present moment. Ask God to help you live in the now. The present moment is the only moment we ever have to live. It is here, and it will never come again.
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