Take Your Time by Rodney Howard Browne

Part of the solution is to chase the advantages of solitude and silence found in periods of obscurity. For the 1st time in 7 years, I took 6 weeks off one summer. I targeted on slowing down and refilling my soul with the deep things of the Lord. I prayed, I sang, I studied, I walked, I fished, I stayed quiet, and I sat pondering and reevaluating my life. You may not have that much time available. You’ll have only a few days, or maybe 2 weeks.

If you are not careful, you can quickly fill those days with things to do, places to go, and folk to see. Resist that enticement to crowd out the Lord. What an ideal chance to carve out time to be alone, just you, the family, and the Lord. I do not want you to miss any of these words. Rather than speeding up, let’s discover ways to slow down and rethink. Taking time to discover what truly matters is crucial if we are going to lift the curse of superficiality that shadows our lives. Don’t wait for the doctor to tell you that you have 6 months to live. Long before anything that sad becomes a fact, you should be growing roots deep into the soil of those things that really matter. No “Six Fast Steps to Success” or other self-help scrolls clumped under his arms.

He came back to what he had experienced on the path to Damascus. He considered each new dawn a present from the Lord, the ideal chance to redo his concerns and rethink his motives.

But time expended in solitude prepares us for the unavoidable challenges that come at us from the chipped age in which we live.