Week 19: Need to Slow Down

Life seems a bit crazy these days. Maybe it's spring fever, but man - am I busy lately. I love it. An interesting time to read through the Psalms. Each Psalm cries out for the reader to slow down and absorb the joy, pain, sorrow, relief, or just praise that it is offering up to God. I have not done a very good job of heeding this call to slow down - I've whizzed through line after line, mind slightly wandering. I might, just might have missed somethings.

In my rush to read and still get to sleep at a semi-reasonable hour, I managed to underline a verse or two.

"Teach me your ways, O Lord,
that I may live according to your truth!"
Psalm 86:11a

Interesting, I think that I need to learn to slow down. God works through a slow build, things don't happen just because I think them or want them. The Israelites didn't walk in the desert for 40 years because it was scenic. God anointed David to be king as a young boy, and then he waited, and waited, was persecuted for a bit and then became king. There is a bigger picture and larger story that is being written all around me. Teach me your ways, O Lord. Teach me how to see the world as you do. Teach me how to love, how to forgive, how to have mercy and compassion. Teach me to slow down, to take the time to learn and understand your truth. Teach me to be up for the challenge of taking the right path, not the easy one or most convenient, but the right one. Teach me to accept the times of wandering, of waiting because you are still at work in my heart.