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No rush

No rush. 

Permission granted. To turn off tech. 

Leave the non-stop. 

Breathe.

No rush. Pennsylvania 2023
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Refining

Tomorrow. Next month. Next year. 
Detailed future schedules, meticulously stored in digital calendars. 
Vanish. Into thin air. Digital air.
As a corona virus disrupts. Delays. Deletes.
And thieves break in.
Whispering fear. Stealing contentment.
This confining space. A refining place. Reveals. 
Makes plain where best-laid-plans put down roots.
And expectations take hold. 

“Come now, you who say, ‘Today or tomorrow we will travel to such and such a city.…Yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring—what your life will be!…”
James 4:14,15

2020. Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay.
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Listen

“Did you hear what she just said? Listen.”

It’s back in the ‘90s. I’m participating in a counseling workshop  in Karachi. Led by a woman from the UK  whose counseling ministry is all about listening. 

She instructs us on the importance of fully taking in what someone is sharing with you. Don’t try to give answers. Don’t start telling your own story.

Just listen.