Writing nearly everyday for almost six months has me accustomed to desiring the discipline of quietness. The only environment in which my words are born is a calmness of heart and spirit. It isn’t the hearing nothing that I need, but the latitude to have peace and rightness in my heart. I’ve become used to watching and studying this life.
So now, after writing for something like 165 days in a row, I’ve come to need this quiet time, this time of contemplation.
I usually find it when I am running, which is why I think, I have to do it. I need this time to reset my heart and my thoughts. I depend upons my runs for this.
I can’t always find it. This week, for example, I had so many things to accomplish that it seems like I fell asleep sometime on Sunday and woke up this morning. Most every minute was accounted for in some way and I just did all that I had to do. I just did. But I slept, it seemed. I didn’t watch life carefully like I have been trying to do. I didn’t take extra time to laugh hard at the cartoons my girls like to watch over and over again.
So maybe, this weekend, tonight even with nothing planned, I might find the quiet and the peace. Maybe I will see inside my husband’s words and try to understand my toddler’s cries. I might take time to be the student of life that I love to be.
I completely understand! Life during this season goes so fast & yet we want it to slow down so we can enjoy it. I too enjoy the quiet of nap times to write my blog & it’s hard when we don’t get that…I hope you get that this evening & enjoy the everything about your family.
I hope that you will get some time for quiet and peace, to listen and absorb life.
I need the same.
I think that’s why I enjoy Blogging so much. It’s different then my quiet time with the Lord. It’s the quiet time of my mind and heart like you mentioned.
Sarah, you have such a way with words and expressing beautifully the everyday moments of life we can quickly miss if we are not paying attention to them. You help remind me to stop and savor the everydays of my busy household. Thank you for always reminding and sharing with us your words.
Looking forward to hearing what the Lord shares with you when you find the quiet and peace.
I am many times so unaware. You do a great job of being aware and living in the moment with your life. I admire that about you!
The hustle and bustle of the season make all this time go by in a blur. I hope you had some time for quiet and calm, enjoying your family. I know I am looking forward to some of that over the next few days with my family.