It's Time.

"Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I've ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in the wake of all the rushing... Through all that haste I thought I was making up time. It turns out I was throwing it away."

-Ann Voskamp, One Thousand Gifts

There's a lot to be said about time. 

And sometimes we forget that it's a gift.

God gave us time for a reason. Because there is a season for everything in our lives. Some are good, and some are bad, but each experience can shape us if we let it.
And sometimes the season is small.
And sometimes we're not paying enough attention.

But, if we aren't, God will bring us to it again.
He doesn't give up.

When we are charging through it all, we leave behind these subtle moments.
Pieces of life scattered through what we think are our priorities.
Those small moments, that seem so minimal, those are the ones that make the biggest difference.
Those are the ones that feed our hearts.

So instead, let's challenge ourselves to slow it down.
To take a moment instead of jumping ahead to the next.

And allow ourselves to trust.
Because we, for some reason, assume all good things come to those who run full speed ahead.
When really, we may just be running right through them.