Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time, and time is the one thing hurried people don’t have.” from The Art of Neighboring: Building Relationships Right Outside Your Door
03767 – Love Takes Time
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02227 – Distinguishing Voices
For any of us feeling longing in Advent: Even though Jesus’ experience in the wilderness wasn’t easy—he fasted for forty days and forty nights and was confronted by the devil—the devil was not the only one he encountered there. The spirit sent Jesus into the...
01743 – Slow Me Down, Lord
Slow me down, Lord.Ease the pounding of my heart by the quieting of my mind.Steady my hurried pace with a vision of the eternal reach of time.Give me, amid the confusion of the day, the calmness of the everlasting hills.Break the tensions of my nerves and muscles with...
00501 – A Life of Unhurried Serenity
And we are unhappy, uneasy, strained, oppressed, and fearful we shall be shallow. For over the margins of life comes a whisper, a faint call, a premonition of richer living which we know we are passing by. Strained by the very mad pace of our daily outer burdens, we...