The unexamined life is not worth living...

So many times we go through life without ever stopping to think abut it. We just go through the motions and don't stop. I am as guilty of this as the next person. So many times I wish I would take the time to breath. To take the time and look around me, to notice God's beauty all around me. To take the time to stop and frame that perfect shot and thus hold a memory in my hand for time to come. To take the time to write down my thoughts. To take the time to go for a coffee with a friend every once in a while. Why is it that we always need to be running to the next thing? Why do we always need to be productive? We have lost the art of being silent. We need the noise. We come home and the first thing we do is put on the TV or the radio just to have some background noise drowning out the silence for fear that the silence would take over. What is it that we don't like about being silent, of stopping to think a little, to breath, to fully appreciate life and the things we have been given to enjoy? Is it because we would then have to finally face ourselves? Face who we truly are? Face the pain? The regret? The sorrows? The brokenness? Or is it the need to keep going, to never stop for fear of being left behind. The world is moving so quickly we barely see it. It becomes a blur as we travel through it. I want to slow down, to enjoy, to savor life but I don't know how to. How, when I've been running for so long, do I stop running? How do I start pacing, strolling through life again? I want to breath. I want to stop and feel the sunshine on my face. I want to stop in the middle of the street when it's pouring rain and feel the raindrops on my face. I want to live, to love, to laugh, to savor life. I want to learn the art of being silent, of examining my life, of savoring it. One of my favorite verses is "Be still and know that I am God" Psalm 46:10 - Lord this is my desire, to worship You, to be still before you, to know You more and more each day. Teach me to be still before You and know that You are God.