halftime

Stills in halftime.

Halftime: an intermission between halves.

Half-time: in music, a rhythmic feel accenting certain beats to make the music feel slower. This gives the sense that the speed of the song has been slowed down dramatically.

It’s time for us to slow down.

To take it from full speed, to half. From hurry, to peace. From accomplishments to really seeing each other for who we are and what we need.

Nick and I recently read the book, "The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry,” by John Mark Comer.

Whoa.

In this book I read words that my soul was feeling but didn’t know how to express. It was like the medicine we didn’t know we needed. Not the kind of medicine that numbs the pain for a short time. This medicine feels like physical therapy. Like hard work. A prescription to take out, not add to.

This time of editing and re-direction is right and good. Some of this process is proving to be comical. Like how many bags of trash or give away items I can find in our house. Every. Time. I. Clean. Or actually trying to create a Sabbath rhythm in our family-as a mom of 3 small kids. Rest for a whole day? With my actual people around?

We are learning to Sabbath. To sit in stillness. To be bored. To adventure. To talk. To listen. To live with less stuff. We are practicing all of these things. Maybe failing some days, but practicing nonetheless.

It isn’t happening over night. I’m thankful life has not taken us to our knees to get to this point. We are moving toward halftime and half-time.

Will this adventure mark a new season for our family? A demarkation in our history? Will we be able to make and sustain the changes required to live a life void of hurry?

I sure hope so.