Slow Me Down, Lord
Slow me down, Lord, Slow me down!
Ease the pounding of my heart
be the quieting of my mind.
Give me amid the confucion of my day,
the calmness of the everlasting hills.
Break the tensions of my nerves and muscles
with the soothing music
of the singing streams that live in my memory.
Help me to knot the magical
restoring power of sleep.
Teach me the art of taking minute vacations,
of slowing down to look at a flower,
to chat with a friend, to pat a dog,
to read a few lines from a good book.
Remind me each day of the fable
of the hare and the tortoise
that I may know that the race
is not always the swift -
that ther is more in life
than increasing speed.
Let me look up
into the branches of the flowering oak
and know that it is great and strong
because it grew slowly and well.
Slow me down, Lord,
and inspire me to send my roots
deep into the soil of life's enduring values
that I may grow towards the stars
of my great destiny.
seaandsuns - 23. Nov, 21:36
