I'm so thankful for my children.
I learn a lot from them.
Like their need for patience. Or my need for grace.
One day we drove home, a cloud of dust billowing behind us on the country road as I raced from one thing to another. My mind raced. The car raced. Time seemed to always run out every day and leave things undone.
As we sped past the grass, my ten year old daughter pressed her forehead against the window and watched the grass blur by.
"Oh!! I saw flowers!!" she said.
"Yeah?" I said, remembering the bunch of wild flowers my husband had picked me once. No occasion, no reason, he just thought of me and had picked them on his way home from work. I was moved by his thoughtfulness.
"We should pick some!" I suggested, and pulled over.
Out there, on the country road, I stood waiting for her to carefully select the flower that was just right.
The sky was so blue, the clouds so puffy and white, and all was still.
So still. Time seemed to freeze. Lists disappeared from my mind for just a moment.
I'd forgotten how refreshing it is to intentionally slow down - to take a break from life so I can live it.
With our kids off to school this year, I've had the chance to freelance full time. It's awesome.
As I hustle my face off to scare up new clients, serve existing ones, launch my own products, and do all the one-man-show things an entrepreneur does, tasks and worries easily crowd out the very moments that fuel me with inspiration to create in the first place!
I feel like I need to slow down. Relax. Rest. Think.
But there's not time for that!
... is there?
Here's what I learned at the side of the road this week: finding peace in the chaos doesn't have to be complicated. Three minutes picking flowers was a simple, free, short, easy thing to do, and it felt so good.
It's not about taking hours of rest; sometimes it only takes a moment to refresh.
*Happy sigh*
What refreshing moment made you happy sigh today?
"We should pick some!" I suggested, and pulled over.
Out there, on the country road, I stood waiting for her to carefully select the flower that was just right.
The sky was so blue, the clouds so puffy and white, and all was still.
So still. Time seemed to freeze. Lists disappeared from my mind for just a moment.
I'd forgotten how refreshing it is to intentionally slow down - to take a break from life so I can live it.
With our kids off to school this year, I've had the chance to freelance full time. It's awesome.
As I hustle my face off to scare up new clients, serve existing ones, launch my own products, and do all the one-man-show things an entrepreneur does, tasks and worries easily crowd out the very moments that fuel me with inspiration to create in the first place!
I feel like I need to slow down. Relax. Rest. Think.
But there's not time for that!
... is there?
Here's what I learned at the side of the road this week: finding peace in the chaos doesn't have to be complicated. Three minutes picking flowers was a simple, free, short, easy thing to do, and it felt so good.
It's not about taking hours of rest; sometimes it only takes a moment to refresh.
*Happy sigh*
What refreshing moment made you happy sigh today?
