the wise act of pausing

     Unless I am careful today, the wise act of pausing will get lost in the shuffle. Every day I plan meetings and appointments, and I never let them get lost in the shuffle. Today I also will plan to pause here and there. In the quiet of not doing, I may awaken to things that I wasn’t even aware of.

“Then Jacob awoke from his sleep and said, ‘Surely God is in this place, and I wasn’t even aware of it.’” Genesis 28:16

“It will be a happy moment when we remember to add the wise act of pausing to our to-do list.” Sr. Macrina Wiederkehr