Hurry up?

"You must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from your life." Imagine for a moment that someone gave you this prescription, with the warning that your life depends on it. Consider the possibility that perhaps your life does depend on it. Hurry is the great enemy of spiritual life in our day. Hurry can destroy our souls. Hurry can keep us from living well. As Carl Jung wrote, "Hurry is not of the devil; hurry is the devil." Again and again, as we pursue spiritual life, we must do battle with hurry. For many of us the great danger is not that we will renounce our faith. It is that we will become so distracted and rushed and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them.
--John Ortberg from "The Life You've Always Wanted Spiritual Disciplines For Ordinary People"

Huge issue for me. I always hurry. Always. Especially right now with the end of the semester coming up, I have like a million loose ends to tie. A project here, a paper there, and a lesson plan well...everywhere (the life of an elementary ed major). This quote came at the perfect time. After I read it, I breathed a huge sigh of relief and felt the tension in my shoulders loosen.

Today's Mantra: Sloooooooooooooow Down :)