Live Slowly

I’m here to walk this path with you, showing you what I’ve both learned and then unlearned. Helping you—so you don’t have to repeat my mistakes.

Feeling the need to be busy all the time is a trauma response and fear-based distraction from what you’d be forced to acknowledge and feel if you slowed down

“Tell me what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life.”

telling God what I need to asking God what I need

Slowing down has a way of shining the light on what’s good in a situation. So often we cannot see what God is doing at the moment. In my case, I have had to shift from telling God what I need to asking God what I need

Not every hard experience leaves a scar. Sometimes we are changed from the inside, where a shift slowly starts to happen, like a large cruise ship turning around to find a better route in a majestic sea.

They didn’t know if they wanted to go back to the hustle of their former schedule and wondered if maybe they were never cut out for a fast-paced life to begin with. Just maybe, they had been doing what everyone else was doing even when it wasn’t a good fit for their own family. Even when it was wearing them plumb out! The Great Pause certainly got people thinking about what they really wanted their family time, their health, their relationships, their churches, and their careers to look like.

Looking back, I now see the clear, absolute timing and the sheer beauty of the hand of God. Allowing me to literally pause. It was the rest that my body craved but my mind would not hand over

, it takes years to realize that a bad situation may have been your only out. Providentially, a protection you weren’t aware you needed. These are the times you exhale slowly and shake your head.

it takes years to realize that a bad situation may have been your only out. Providentially, a protection you weren’t aware you needed. These are the times you exhale slowly and shake your head