abundant life church

contantly speeding up - "multiple tasking" - clutter - superficiality - inability to love - sunset fatigue

Can you relate to these statements?  These 6 statements are from John Ortberg's book "The Life You've Always Wanted."  His chapter on "slowing" is really a pertinent one for all of us.  If we are to follow Jesus, we must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from our lives-because, by definition, we can't move faster than the one we are following.  So how do you cure this sickness of hurry?  We must realize that we cannot achieve this on our own we have to enter the life of training.  First, is called "slowing" this involves cultivating patience by deliberately choosing to place ourselves in position we we simply have to wait."  Things like declare a fast from honking or for a week your fast food slowly.  We will soon discover we can survive without hurry.

I learned this lesson the other week while on my way to pick my parents up at the airport.  I decided to make a stop at a store which put me behind in time to pick them up.  I knew that I needed to make up some time and so the foot got heavy which lead to my first speeding ticket ever.  My oldest daughter was with me and after the nice altercation with the Sheriff she congratulated me on not getting my first ticket until I was 38 years old.  I am still learning this practice of "slowing" how about you?  PJ