The Sacred Rhythm of Slow:
How slowing down opened space for deep healing and lasting joy
Cultivating a slow life was the best thing I ever did to nurture my health, my healing, and my family.
But it required intentionality to get to this place.
For so many years, I tried to manage a life of constant busyness. My pace was rush, rush, rush — day in and day out. It felt like all I did was shuffle my kids around, toting them to-and-from private school, a 25-minute commute each way. For several years, when they were on different schedules, I drove this path back-and-forth several times a day. Five years of this wore me down.
The more exhausted I became, the more I noticed a feeling of resistance growing within me — a resistance to this cultural norm demanding “maximize your time” and “cram as much as possible into every minute of your day”.
Then, God began an overturning in my life, calling me to homeschool my kids. One of my top goals was to cultivate a slower life for me and my children. My desire was more white space on the calendar, to be more relaxed with our time—not packing our days with every minute scheduled. I know this was God's leading. He wanted to refine me. Foster growth in me. He was inviting me to allow Him to be my Jehovah-Rapha: God my healer.
You know as well as I do that the word “slow” isn’t a popular one.
But it has far deeper meaning than we realize.
According to the Dictionary App, slow means: made, created, or done in a careful, thorough, or traditional way in order to ensure such benefits as quality, environmental sustainability, or time for mental reflection
“quality, environmental sustainability, and time for mental reflection” — for me and my family?
Are you shouting AMEN with me?
How often do such things happen for us – as mothers, caregivers, entrepreneurs, ministry and community leaders – automatically?
Slow is made or created carefully.
Slow is intentional.