I don’t know about you but sometimes I just need to spend a little time sauntering! It’s an exquisite word that I rarely use probably because I don’t find myself strolling through life very often. Besides, who has time to saunter? The fast paced life we live in leaves little room for ambling our way from one destination to the next. It is incredible the capacity and draw we have to speed. If you have ever spent time around a little child who is just learning how to walk it is fascinating to see how they marvel at every moment of every step. Do we get that same enjoyment out of our pace of walking through life? Whatever happened to skipping? Is there an age restriction on that one? I used to skip all over the place. As a kid it wasn’t about the speed (okay, maybe just a little), it was about the fun of it. God gave our bodies all these marvelous choices of how to take the journey. The magnificent thing is the option to change multiple times during the course of a day. Sometimes its a sauntering kind of day, other times it is just when I want to be more present to everything along the path I am traveling. In the same way God gave our bodies multiple modalities of travel, our minds have multiple modes of presence. Instead of deciding that we should only multi task or always put intensive thought into things, maybe there is room for both. Maybe both ways are right. Perhaps we are not being wrong when we aren’t intentional about where we are focusing our attention. Perhaps it is a moment we need to saunter through our head about some other thought. I have experienced on my dates with God the immense latitude and openness of Spirit to be accepting and forgiving of where I and my head are in at the moment. Perhaps God is trying to teach me something about how to be with myself even when I am sauntering.
Be From Sauntering!
on March 10, 2017My prayer for us is the openness to consider what a little sauntering might make room for in our journey today.
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