My wife recently purchased Donald Miller's book, Through Painted Deserts. It's a road-trip memoir about three months spent crossing the country in a Volkswagen camping van. I'm finding the detail and rich metaphors a very pleasing and inspiring experience as I leaf through each page.
A couple pages, in particular, caught my attention. If you have the book, I encourage you to leaf over to the bottom of page 59, all of page 60, and the top of page 61. Donald shares insight into God, light, travel, and speed. Here's an excerpt:
"God, if like light, travels at the speed of light, and because space and time are mingled with speed, the speed of light is the magic, exact number that allows a kind of escape from time. Scientists have played with atomic clocks, matched exactly, setting one in a plane to fly around the world, and another motionless, waiting for the return of its partner. When they reunite, the one that traveled rests milliseconds behind the one fixed. The faster you move, physicists have found, the less you experience time."
The faster you move, the less you experience time. Interesting. Here I sit on my deck reading this chapter. Inside of 30 minutes I have witnessed a mother and father bird tag team the feeding of their newly hatched who sit completely helpless and dependent on the bugs, worms or whatnot. Silence for 3 or 4 minutes. Then a crescendo of squeaky, little chirping followed by a decrescendo to silence until the next delivery. On goes the rhythm.
I would not have witnessed such an unbelievable display set in motion by our Creator unless I was still long enough to notice what was going on. If my mind was busy, busy, busy working out some problem or worrying about one of life's incessant issues, the little nest-dwellers would still have their rhythm - only unnoticed by me. I'm richer for the experience. The spiritual plate of my life just got a fresh spin.
At what speed are you traveling these days? Are you attempting the impossible task of molecular transformation, going in 15 directions at the same time? I urge you to slow down. After all, as Donald points out, "the faster you move the less you experience time."
Watch your speed and you'll be Serving Strong!
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