Slowing down can be so hard. Try to breathe.
But if you don’t take a moment every so often to breathe, time spins along and the next thing you know, your kids are grown and those moments are gone.
So try to take a bit of time every so often to look around at your children, your husband, and your life and relax.
I wanted to share an entry from my journal. Let me take you back to June, four years ago. My kids had just finished up 5th grade. We had only been homeschooling for a few years, and I was still figuring all kinds of things out.
Lately I have come to fully understand the meaning of the phrase: Just breathe.
Right now it is evening and sitting at my kitchen table, the summer melodies of crickets waft in the window. Tonight is the first night this summer that I have noticed them.
Every day I enjoy my husband and my children, my friends and family, and those precious quiet times when everyone in the house is asleep and I can just sit and think.
I am finding a quiet, inner peace comes from this renewed focus on what is important in my life. It is a quiet within my soul that is still and deep beyond measure. Paradoxically, the quietness leads to great activity and productivity. I spend less time spinning my wheels or preparing to focus on a task and instead I can just simply sit down and do it. I have already contemplated the task and possible approaches so I am ready to act as soon as I have the opportunity to sit down. In the space between, I can cherish my husband and play with my children without the burden of losing focus on them.
I have always enjoyed contemplation but until recently I have always engaged in contemplation through a state of near manic focus and concentration, pushing everything else in my life away. Some undefinable event has broadened my view of late. Why now? I have no idea.
Just breathe…
Do you ever take quiet moments just for yourself?
What do you do to find those times? Are you able to get enough?
I linked this post up with the Mommy Monday Blog Hop. . .
and at this week’s Weekly Homeschool Blog Link Up at the Homeschool Review Crew.
