For many people, these unusual days seem less hurried than before. Because of the COVID-19 scare and subsequent isolation from others, many of us have found that slowing down is what our bodies and souls have craved for years.
We find more time to take long walks. We spend more time alone. We discover the re-energizing power of just being still. We actually know what it means to listen deeply to our spirits.
We might even discover, as Alan Wolfelt puts it, that we’ve been giving “mindless attention to things that don’t really matter and that we don’t really care about.” Surprisingly, we might even find we have more energy for important tasks that we have for too long neglected.
With more of us getting full vaccination, I ponder, when things get back to normal, will we wonder why we ever rushed at all? Or shall we return to our “never enough time in the day” way of rushing through life.
...Steve Gloodier
