Slow Me Down Lord!

Slow Me Down…

Seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of it’s own. –Matthew 6:33-34

We live in such a fast-paced society!  Life seems to go by with lightening speed and I hardly have time to even think about what to fix for dinner most days… until dinner time.   It gets easy to be seduced by a culture which seems to try to focus our minds off the Lord and on to simply soooo many other things.

If we are going to keep in touch with Jesus, I think we must slow down our frantic pace and make choices where we give Jesus our time and attention.

I recently read this prayer by Orin D. Crain.  I’m going to try to read it for a few days in a row.  It helped me, and maybe it will you as well.

Slow me down, Lord. Ease the pounding of my heart by the quieting of my mind. Steady my hurried pace with a vision of the eternal reach of time. Give me, amid the confusion of the day, the calmness of the everlasting hills. Break the tensions of my nerves and muscles with the soothing music of the singing streams that live in my memory. Teach me the art of taking minute vacations – of slowing down to look at a flower, to chat with a friend, to pat a dog, to smile at a child, to read a few lines from a good book. Slow me down, Lord and inspire me to send my roots deep into the soil of life’s enduring values, that I may grow toward my greater destiny. Remind me each day that the race is not always to the swift; that there is more to life than increasing its speed. Let me look upward to the towering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.
 

Blessings,

Thora