Teachers demanding your effort, work demanding your time...
it feels like your trying all you can to get that klondike bar, but it's not enough.
We quickly arrive, are rushed away and then left at night without any time
to digest what just happened before we muster strength to do it again.
I get it. I'm there.
Are you tired of it already, too?
I finally took time to go to a bible study this past week, finally slowed down enough
to see the people around me without an agenda, and finally felt love welling up in me
for the great people who surrounded me.
This all happened because I stopped: seeing this culture of quick progress
is not the same as God's culture of deep, soul-quenching wholeness.
So take time to relax in the truth of this before you start your day the same way:
" Come, all you who are thirsty, come to the waters...
Listen, listen to me, and eat what is good...
Give ear and come to me; listen that you may live.
As the rain and the snow come down from heaven,
and do not return to it without watering the earth
and making it bud and flourish,
so that it yields seed for the sower and bread for the eater,
so is my word that goes out from my mouth:
It will not return to me empty.
You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace...
Instead of the thornbush will grow the juniper,
and instead of briers the myrtle will grow.
This will be... for an everlasting sign, that will endure forever." Isaiah 55, NIV