{"id":10450,"date":"2013-09-11T04:00:42","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T09:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/?p=10450"},"modified":"2013-09-11T18:24:06","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T23:24:06","slug":"slow-me-down-september-11-2013-daily-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/slow-me-down-september-11-2013-daily-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Slow Me Down, September 11, 2013 Daily Reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"
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It grew tall and strong…<\/p><\/div>\n

We move so fast in our lives that it seems so many times our days are a blur and our thoughts are not even slow enough to understand. We live in a culture that prizes productivity over thoughtful living. We need to slow down and live our lives instead of speeding up and passing them by.<\/p>\n

A very intelligent student in my class said something the other day that really made me think about what our culture is teaching our young people. He said \u201cMs. HD in my perfect world there would be no need for sleep. Then we would all be so much more productive.\u201d He is a great person who has been taught that productivity is the key to life.<\/p>\n

PRODUCTIVITY IS NOT THE KEY TO LIFE. God is the answer and living, loving and serving one another has nothing to do with productivity. I dug up this poem. I LOVE IT! Jenny read it on all of our retreats. Read this slowly and let yourself be in the moment as you do this.<\/p>\n

Reflection for Relaxation<\/em><\/strong> \u2013 Wilfred A. Peterson<\/strong><\/p>\n

Slow me down, Lord!
\nEase the pounding of my heart
\nBy the quieting of my mind.
\nSteady my harried pace
\nWith a vision of the eternal reach of time.<\/p>\n

Give me,
\nAmidst the confusions of my day,
\nThe calmness of the everlasting hills.
\nBreak the tensions of my nerves
\nWith the soothing music
\nOf the singing streams
\nThat live in my memory.<\/p>\n

Help me to know
\nThe magical power of sleep,
\nTeach me the art
\nOf taking minute vacations
\nOf slowing down
\nTo look at a flower;
\nTo chat with an old friend
\nOr make a new one;
\nTo pat a stray dog;
\nTo watch a spider build a web;
\nTo smile at a child;
\nOr to read a few lines from a good book.
\nRemind me each day
\nThat the race is not always to the swift;
\nThat there is more to life
\nThan increasing its speed.<\/p>\n

Let me look upward
\nInto the branches of the towering oak
\nAnd know that it grew great and strong
\nBecause it grew slowly and well.<\/p>\n

Slow me down, Lord,
\nAnd inspire me to send my roots deep
\nInto the soil of life’s enduring values
\nThat I may grow toward the stars
\nOf my greater destiny.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SLOW ME DOWN… But I don’t have time to slow down…that’s why you should read this reflection…FOR REAL!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10451,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[59,1366,1072,1367],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/faithfilledmom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}