Hurry. Its a word that means you’re important. Well, you must be important if you’re rushing somewhere. Or you seem important. Hurry also means I miss out. I miss out on the moment, the present, the gift of now.
My neighbour has a worship bush at his front gate. I have no idea what flowers grow on that bush….but I call it a worship bush because when I walk by early in the morning…when I walk by slowly…..the most magnificent scent comes from that bush. So I call it a worship bush because when the world is quiet that bush does effortlessly what it was created to do and by doing that it brings glory to Elohim ?
Then yesterday I was rushing…I was thinking about something else that was in the future and I missed my moment of breathing in that glorious scent. All because of one word – hurry. I missed the moment..missed the present …and missed the gift.
It got me thinking about the many other gifts we miss each and every day just because we hurry.
And you know what – deep inside all of us we know, know that there’s a better way to live – the question though, is, are we brave enough to embrace a life that doesn’t hurry?
Are you brave enough to live in the moment today?