Time is running very fast. People are in a constant rush. We live without realizing the moment we are in now. While we will be able to grasp what is actually happening around us with a slightly calmer life, we are perhaps lost on bends roads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, how good it would be for our soul to move forward with the awareness that the moment will not happen again and that the roads will never be passed, and to notice the blooming of the birds while listening to the birds’ voice on the road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Like Wilferd Arlan Peterson’s poem\u2026 What a lot of people needed to slow down\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Slow me down, Lord!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tEase the pounding of my heart<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tBy the quieting of my mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tSteady my harried pace<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tWith a vision of the eternal reach of time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tGive me,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tAmidst the confusions of my day,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tThe calmness of the everlasting hills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tBreak the tensions of my nerves<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tWith the soothing music <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tOf the singing streams<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tThat live in my memory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tHelp me to know<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tThe magical power of sleep,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tTeach me the art<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tOf taking minute vacations <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tOf slowing down<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tTo look at a flower;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tTo chat with an old friend <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tOr make a new one;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tTo pat a stray dog;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tTo watch a spider build a web;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tTo smile at a child;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tOr to read a few lines from a good book.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tRemind me each day<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tThat the race is not always to the swift;<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tThat there is more to life <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tThan increasing its speed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tLet me look upward<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tInto the branches of the towering oak<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tAnd know that it grew great and strong<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tBecause it grew slowly and well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tSlow me down, Lord,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tAnd inspire me to send my roots deep<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tInto the soil of life’s enduring values<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tThat I may grow toward the stars<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\tOf my greater destiny.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\t\t\tWilferd A. Peterson.
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