"Spiritual direction begins when people are helped to walk more slowly, talk more slowly and eat more slowly." (Francis de Sales)
As a person with a "get it done" personality.... I am beginning to see that running ahead in my life has not always accomplished what I wanted.
Sadly, much of my teaching, that path leadership takes today, keeps us hyper active, and exhausted, as we try to accomplish our...... "something"...... However, in the end, we have little time left for the people we love, or want to love. We excel at heaping activities and events on people. To "accomplish" all this stuff we feel needs to "get done", we can side step the greater things. I know have.
Jesus said the highest activities in life are to love God and to love others. Amazing how we depersonalize that from time with others, to creating programs and doing stuff "to" them, and it keeps us busy planning and executing.
This quote exposes a truth.
If we walk more slowly, we are not ticking off lists, and spending more time on the journey with people walking beside.
If we talk more slowly, we say less, and we are listening more.
If we eat more slowly, we turn eating from "energy" consumption to fuel another task, and turn it into table time with a few precious others.
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