Pumpkin spice lattes, cool weather and a cloudy mornings all beg for a fuzzy blanket, pjs all day and introspection. Suddenly I realize what it is.
I slowed down.
You may be thinking how silly that is, but for this girl this is a most uncomfortable place. A place where I am alone with my thoughts, void of distraction and a space and time begging for some serious attention to my soul.
Someone gave me a plaque once that read “Stop glorifying busy”. I laughed at the moment to cover the serious jab to all I was but truth be told, it continues to rock me. In a world of more, higher achievement, faster pace, productivity and goals, glorifying busy is one of the most true statements of the day. The ending of one day is closed out making a “to do” list for the next. Sleep sometimes does not come easy as thoughts of what was not accomplished that day and all that remains for the next haunt us like little gremlins vying for time and space in the already complicated life we are living. Then there are the unexpected things, the unplanned that now must be added to the planned…the illness, the repair, the crisis of the moment. One day rolls into two then it’s a busy week, month, year, life. Our soul is screaming to stop the madness through our aching shoulders and tired minds.
But yet the world, myself included, continue to GLORIFY this busy.
It’s as if busy is an identity we carry, an excuse we use and a goal we set for ourselves. Thus being still, slowing down is it’s antithesis, quickly becoming the thing that we shame ourselves for.
Truth: The soul CRAVES stillness, quiet and slow when growth and alignment must occur.
Yet from a carnal place we have adopted the belief that WE are in control of our growth and that only comes with work, fast and busy. Now I’m not alluding to adopting a mindset of laziness; we have a part to play in all this. There IS work that must be done, there is an element of “do” on our part. I believe what I am continually learning is the lesson of balance.
Between the “have to”, the “need to” and the “want to” it feels like a constant dance with no consistent tempo. Yet we ARE wired to dance, just to the tempo of one partner. When I give my soul the moment to rest with my creator, the clarity begins to come, the alignment will happen and with that the rhythm of the dance my life was created for begins to flow. It is there that I hear not only those things begging my attention, the busy in my life, but a louder voice of peace. Not a voice I was ever familiar with most of my life, but one I’m learning to hear. That still place, that whispered quiet that begs my attention above all else.
Balance happens.
So again today, I sip my coffee, hear the wetlands awaken and the wind rustle the trees. The reminder of who is in control returns and the whispered quiet begins to balance an out of balance week and life. It’s a dance whose steps I am still learning yet one my heart yearns for.
So if you’ve fallen under the weight of busyness, lost yourself in glorifying what was never meant to be or your just tired, then stop….for a day, an hour, a moment. Get still, stop spinning both internally and externally and listen…to your heartbeat, to the wind, to the whisper of your soul and just be.
Let the dance begin….
Peace be yours,
Dee
Soulife 