a million miles an hour...

I'm done trying to keep up with the world's pace.

Running that fast, for that long, can't be good for anyone.

It's like the Jimmy Needham song ("A Breath or Two") that I posted the lyrics to on here a while ago:

I want to breathe in, I want to breathe in and out again...
I'm tired of putting one foot in front of the other.
I'm weary of where it leads me to.
I'm tired of moving on from my Father.
Make me rest my head and take a breath or two...

Lately I've been taking things at a slower pace, because I've realized that to run along with the world is to run yourself ragged in a race that you will never win (in the world, not of it).

3 months ago the Lord started doing this work in me that I have yet to even fully understand.
Bondage, that I didn't even realize that was holding me back, was broken. And a freedom that I hadn't known since, well...EVER...was revealed to me.

So for me, time has really been redefined...
I'm refocusing my attention on my relationship with my Rescuer... I've had to re-learn all of the 'basic' stuff that I had 'known'. Mostly because the significance of the "little" things was lost on me. Like...His LOVE for me. For US. It truly is a beautiful romance...

I'm also spending more time with my family, which is something that I had neglected HORRIBLY over the past year and a half. My relationship with each member of my family is being rebuilt (though some of them are much HARDER than I'd like), and it's growing me in ways that I could have never imagined.

So basically, what I'm trying to say, is that I am finally getting things in gear at the RIGHT speed. The GOD speed. Not the WORLD speed. And if that means "taking it easy", then so be it. If some people want to judge me because of that, so be it, but this is God's life, not mine, so I'm doing things His way this time around.


...this is my pace: