How much more we see
when we slow down!
No,
I don’t mean
slowing down
just long enough
so we can catch our breath
so we can speed up again.
And no,
I’m not talking about just
moving out of the fast lane.
I don’t mean slowing down by half.
Not even half of half.
Stop!
Today,
if only for a few moments,
slow all the way down to now.
Slow down to this moment
—just this moment.
When we do
we see more of the magnificent
as well as the mundane,
more of the extraordinary
in the ordinary,
more of the beautiful
beneath the ugly.
We’ll be surprised,
more than likely stunned,
maybe even stupefied
by what we see.
“Has this always been here?”
we’ll ask incredulously.
Life will seductively respond,
“Yes…and so much more!”
We’ll see things
—things we’ve been missing—
joy, love, forgiveness, kindness, appreciation, splendor
—to name just a few.
And we’ll be the wiser, the richer, the fuller for it—
more joyful…and less judgmental,
more loving…and less loathing,
more forgiving…and less frightening,
more kind…and less callous,
more appreciative…and less arrogant,
more awed…and less apathetic.
We will discover where we had only known.
We will know where we had only wondered.
We will wonder where we had only doubted.
We will doubt where we had only been certain.
In short,
we will see
—as if for a first time—
what has been here all along.
“Be still, and know that I am God.” (Psalm 46:10)
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