dailydatewithgod

God takes the time.  Of course, God makes time.  It is hard to imagine being in a space where time is irrelevant.  We live in such a timed world.  There are clocks everywhere. We are measured by how much time it takes us to get things done, arrive somewhere, respond to someone, finish school, get a job, get married, own a house and on and on.  Most of our relationship with time has to do with results.  If we are not dependent upon results, how much time something takes does not matter.  Perhaps this is why God is about the process because God is not measuring what gets done, but what is being done, more specifically who we are being while we are on this travel experience of life.  We are called to be the message of love. When I look back on a day, sometimes I focus on how much time things took, but mostly I remember what I was thinking about or feeling.  Who I was being while I was waiting tells me more about the quality of my life than the amount of time. I work around and train others on computer systems, we are all around them these days.  How frustrated do we get when the page doesn’t load quick enough or we haven’t gotten an email response back?  Who are we being when we are frustrated or waiting?  Who are we being when things aren’t going the way or the speed we want them to?  Where else is it exactly that we are supposed to be at that moment that we need it to happen so quickly?  Maybe some slowness is not a bad thing.  Maybe in the slowness we can actually be present to where we are, who we are with, what we are feelings and just be for a moment.  Often that is too uncomfortable so we would rather the rush of moving to the next thing.  And when we can’t get that rush, we complain and get all dramatic about it not happening.  I am convinced that God finds me quite amusing just watching me run around in such a hurry sometimes. If God were a southern woman he would say, “Sweet Child, why are you in such a hurry?  Just come sit out on the veranda with me darlin’ and let’s sip some lemonade and take in the sun before it goes down.”  My prayer for us today is that we be open to the possibility that whatever is moving slowly in our lives is God’s invitation to sit down on the veranda and sip some lemonade.  Make it a great one!  Peace~Colleen

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