Thursday, May 5, 2011

CAUTION: Read Slowly

When was the last time you walked slowly?
Not to go someplace you need to be,
but to find yourself in a place you didn't expect to be.
Unscheduled, unrehearsed, and uninterrupted.

When was the last time you opened your eyes,
not to look but to see.
To see the world more clearly than you could ever picture it in your mind.
To see the world as it really is,
rather than as you dream it to be,
and you discover that it's way more than you had dreamed.

When was the last time you looked at the clouds
not to check the weather, but to just watch the sky.
To admire the vastness of something so relatively small in the universe,
yet such an important piece of your existence.
Always close by, always out of reach, never quite the same.
Not based around hours and months,
but guided by the breath of God.

Live your life, not your calendar.