We come into this world with our fingers curled, and only slowly, by repeated practice, do we learn to open our hands.
04225 – Opening Our Hands
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03710 – When Great Souls Die…
And when great souls die,after a period, peace blooms,slowly and always irregularly.Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration.Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us.They existed.They existed.We can be.Be and be better.For they existed.
03507 – Don’t Rush!
Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.
03465 – Time: Slow vs. Fast
Time is very slow for those who wait. Very fast for those who are scared.Very long for those who lament.Very short for those who celebrate.But for those who love, time is eternal.
03446 – Forward is Forward!
Keep going, and don't worry about your speed. You're making progress, even if it doesn't seem like it. Forward is forward, no matter how slow.
03202 – Growing Slowly and Well
Remind me each day that the race is not always to the swift; that there is more to life than increasing its speed. Let me look upward into the towering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.
02939 – Pick the Right Team
If you have always been short, chubby, and slow, and your sense of success means playing on an NBA team, failure will be your lot in life. If, however, you are pleased to play on a local playground team with other short, chubby, and slow people, and you have a...
02841 – Repentance
REPENTANCE is not seen in tears; it is not seen in words; it is not seen in emotion. Repentance is long, slow, consistent change over an extended period of time because it is from the heart outward. Heart change is supernatural work.... REPENTANCE of habituated sin is...
02279 – Tragically Flawed by Our Self-Centeredness
The scriptural telling begins with how tragically flawed we are by our self-centeredness – Adam blaming Eve, Cain bashing Abel – and how slow we are to realize it – Samson with Delilah, David with Bathsheba.... But one day a man named Jesus appeared out of nowhere who...
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...