The LORD will fight for you; you need only to be still. Exodus14:14
Life without margins is "crisis mode living." Having a day or two in crisis mode is doable...when it becomes a lifestyle it's a problem. It's not sustainable to spend every waking moment of almost every day trying to figure how to keep all your plates spinning and how to juggle all the balls in the air.
In crisis mode you keep running, even on empty; faster and faster, project to project; deadline to deadline, school, jobs, friends, church; and it just gets faster and faster.
People who live this kind of lifestyle eventually crash.Their plates fall, and they have to pick up their lives in pieces.
Here are some wise, preventative words to keep close to your heart.
Slow me down, Lord.
Ease the pounding of my heart by the quieting of my mind.
Steady my hurried pace with a vision of the eternal reach of time.
Give me, in the confusion of the day, the calmness of the everlasting hills.
Break the tension of my nerves and muscles with the soothing music of singing streams from my memories.
Teach me the art of taking minute vacations--slowing down to look at a flower, to chat with a friend, to pat a dog, to smile at a child, to read a few lines from a good book.
Slow me down, Lord, and inspire me to send my roots deep into the soil of life's enduring values so that I can accomplish all that you have planned for me to do.
Remind me each day that the race is not always to the swift; that there is more to life than increasing its speed.
Let me look upward to the towering oak and know that it grew great and strong because it grew slowly and well.
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