Slow Me Down Lord

Here it is Saturday p.m. and I am alone and should be doing tons of things, yet here I sit and read my favorite blogs instead of working and getting anything done.

This past week in the midst of going thru some of my things I found this real old wall hanging. I do believe - Bernice gave it to me years and years ago. It's all wrinkly and stained, but I most definitely do not want to forget it's message:





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, amid the confusion of the day,
the calmness of the everlasting hills.

Break the tensions of my nerves and
muscles with the soothing musinc of the
singing streams that live in my memory.
Help me to know 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.

Slow me down, Lord, and inspire me to
send my roots deep into the soil of life's enduring
values that I may grow toward the stars
of my greater destiny.


unknown.