Slowing Down

I have been ridiculously busy of late, hence my lack of posts. We are in the process of selling our house and buying a lake house, because we want to slow down and have more time to enjoy our family and our lives. All of this has been a bit of an paradox really, as we rush around trying to get our current house ready for sale, and I have even less time than I usually do to devote to practice.

I do still manage to read though(in 5 minute bursts usually), and I just finished an interesting fiction book about Jesus (sort of). The best thing I got out of this book was a version of a walking meditation to use in a labrynth, along with a really lovely version of the Lord's Prayer. I won't reprint the whole thing here, but there were 6 main ideas or areas for contemplation that I will share. They were faith, surrender, service, abundance, forgiveness and strength. The idea was to contemplate each of them in turn while walking the labrynth. And all of this was connected with the idea of slowing down.

Now, slowing down is not an option for me right at the moment, but it doesn't mean I have to be frantic in my thinking. This meditation gave me some great ideas for reframing the busyness I am currently emeshed in, and even using it to help me go deeper into looking for God in all things. The only problem is, now I want a labrynth...