When did you last pause and listen?
Sometimes, in the swirl of creative projects and the everyday rush of parenting, it feels like the quiet moments slip away before we notice. I find myself reflecting on how easily I fill the silence—whether with art, prayer, or just the hum of laundry tumbling in the next room.
I’m trying to seek intentional pause in my days: a cup of coffee slowly sipped, turning the TV off early in the evening, read a physical book and marking things direct in the pages that speak to me, and even cuddling our pups close and listening to their breathing when they relax against me to nap.
These little moments feel like something I’ve been chasing lately – like fireflies dancing in the wind. And when I realize what I’ve found, I can’t help but pause — pause and drink in the beauty of finally capturing a brief moment of calm that sustains me when life gets busy.
I have to laugh. This is nothing I would have wanted as ‘Past Me’. The quiet would have been too much like giving up on an adventure, or something I would sit in anxiously rather than peacefully.
But now I crave this reflective time, enjoying observing and listening rather than being in the center of it all. This evolution is a change of priorities, realignment of where my focus is nowadays, and also self-care from being part of the chaotic secular world. A world that constantly pushes for more action than introspect, and claims we fall behind when we lack ‘hustle’.
But it’s the hustle itself that these glimmers of time pushes away when God aligns our path with them. He truly knows what we need and my guess? It’s quiet time for me in this season of life. It’s reflecting and, while I’m still up for adventure, it’s more “smelling the roses” than it is being an adrenaline junkie.
What does it look like for you to make space for God’s gentle voice amid your daily rhythms? I’d love to hear how you find (or miss) those pockets of stillness in your own season of life.
Let’s share and encourage each other today. 🍂
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