large as this longing

Why is it that life flies by so fast? Some days it just seems that there’s no way out of the frenzied pace we find ourselves running.  The most terrible part of it all is that we hardly ever stop long enough to notice.  We so easily get caught up in keeping our plates spinning.  I wonder what would happen if everything stopped one day.  Would we be so disoriented at the lack of insane motion that we wouldn’t recognize the world we live in?

Life is full of beautiful things.  Let’s not let our brokenness  black them out, let’s not remain too busy to notice.  Let’s all stop and breathe deep today, the Life that is all around us.