Slowing Down the Pace

Yesterday really made me think.  Normally a good thing. The thoughts began with a post I read early in the morning, then they continued off and on until late at night as I baked brownies with my oldest daughter.

Like most people these days, I stay busy - and the times during the day when I’m not busy, the mind usually spends that time (all 10 minutes of it!) thinking about what to do next.  I think we’re all pretty guilty of getting caught up in a mad crazy cycle.  We set this ridiculous pace for ourselves and watch as our health, and often even relationships, go flying out the window.  Then we have the audacity to wonder where they went.  We chased them off!

The best moments in life are the ones that happen when we aren’t trying to catch up to our expectations. Planting bulbs with an audience of cats, watching a movie with your family, drinking coffee in the morning waiting for your loved ones to come staggering through, singing out loud with the radio, summer’s first ice cream cone, reading Dean Koontz then sleeping with one eye open, baking brownies with a daughter who “folds” flour in with a mixer on high……  The list goes on, or rather it’ll go on as far as we allow it to.  If we don’t get too busy with business.

We work hard so we can give our family everything they need, but ultimately they need us more than anything else.  And they need for us to be healthy - mentally, spiritually, physically and emotionally. Nothing we could ever give them could take the place of that.  If only we could realize that while there’s still plenty of time to un-do something about it.

Joi