When We Press Pause

As you read this, I’m wobbling around my home church for the last night of VBS, Vacation Bible School. Our theme this year was SonQuest jungle, and the verse is John 3:16. Although I blog ahead, what a great class. They are a kind, sweet, and hungry for Jesus kind of group.

Once the decorations are down and teachers get their voices back, my real work begins. With God’s prompting, confirmed with a broken wrist/dislocated knee/sore tailbone, my work is to stop.

Press pause.

Not take on any new activities, ministries or new, just formed ideas until the fall, or later.I’m a go-getter and that isn’t easy for me, but necessary. Sometimes I run so fast I kick up dirt and leave a trail of it in the Lord’s face. I never want to go ahead of him, but I do. Then like Aesop’s fable I get tired, and quit the race before it ends. So, a rest of sorts is in order.

Summer is known to be :a slower pace. I always think about the lemonade commercial where the busiest activity came from the porch swing swaying. This rest got me thinking–what are the things I miss when I’m in a busy season.

For me:

-Laughter. I’m moving too much to see funny things and laugh, or enjoy others laughing.

-Crickets. I love their night serenades and I’ve barely heard any. Too busy. My loss.

-S’mores. Well I don’t like marshmallows, but the experience is great. Sitting around a fire, ah.

-Night swimming.

-Impromptu picnic.

-Camping.

-A day at the beach.

-Smelling the roses, literally.

How about you? Do you need to slow down? What do you miss that you aren’t enjoying right now?

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