Slow down
We either choose to slow down or slow down chooses to do us.
On my usual Saturday morning run my calf muscle asked me to slow down to a walk. I could argue with it, however years of attending to my body as a runner has taught me some wisdom. The pain was not going to be run out.
Indeed the week has asked me to slow down.
It has been a week of completions – debts paid, broken relationships forgiven, and several years of hard dissolved in the ocean of forgiveness.
I have required much more sleep – time to allow my unconscious mind to unpack and release all of the work done.
Busy is a choice. Busy squeezes all the spaces out of real contemplation, real-time to look long and hard at what busy tries to disguise.
Contemplation prepares a person to know.
More than busy, more than empire building, the world needs wisdom that comes from slowing down enough to contemplate depths and spaces and the eternal.
November 3rd 2018
Photo taken November 3rd 2018
