Un-Hurry Your Life
Have you ever considered "boredom" as good for you?
Is boredom good for your kids?
Do you remember a time when instant access to the internet, YouTube, tic-toc, and/or snapchat wasn't an immediate go to?
How about this, waiting at the railroad tracks, waiting in traffic, sitting in a movie theater before the show with nothing for your mind to do but wander, listen, visit or just be quiet?
Instead, do we fill the empty minutes checking emails, answering texts, checking Facebook, reading tweets and/or watching random videos?
We all have to do some of this, but is this new normal of hurried digital distraction robbing our ability to be present?
Present with God.
Present with people.
Present in our own souls.
"The noise of this world makes us deaf to the voice of God."
The noise of this world makes us deaf to the voice of God, drowning out the one input we most need. (John Mark Comer, "The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry")
The Bible gives us examples of how Jesus practiced being quiet, finding silence.
And rising very early in the morning, while it was still dark, he departed and went out to a desolate place, and there he prayed.
The apostles returned to Jesus and told him all that they had done and taught. And he said to them, "Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest awhile." For many were coming and going, and they had no leisure, even to eat. And they went away in the boat to a desolate place by themselves.
Let's begin turning down the external noise, and work on the mental chatter running in our heads.
We can replace self - noise with healthy self - talk.
Let us enter into some quiet time and get centered, by being in touch with God and yourself.
Extra reading: Luke 6:12 Luke 9:18-22
Until next time, Pam
