How to Spend Your Days

Slow down enough to notice it.

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How to Spend Your Days

Spend your days watching the way the morning light continues to peek through the blinds. Let the coffee get cold because the conversation turned meaningful. Sit outside a little longer than necessary. Watch how dogs completely lose their minds when someone says the word walk or snack. You can also take a walk and have a snack if you need it. You probably need it.

Spend your days taking breaks from screens. Go become a local in your own neighborhood. Become a friend to your own neighbors. And to yourself. Learn faces and names and stories. Ask questions and break bread and endure the awkwardness long enough for it to become friendship.

Spend your days living out the Beatitudes. And the Cha-Cha-Slide. Blessed are the meek. Everybody clap your hands.

Spend your days paying attention. Pay attention to the sky. To the way God keeps painting the same sunset differently every evening. To the exhausted Amazon delivery driver. To the tired parent in the grocery store. To the person who seems like they could use a little kindness today. And maybe that person is you. Don’t you know, you do not need a reason to buy yourself flowers. Or french fries.

Spend your days interrupting the noise with short prayers.

Thank You.
Please.
Help.
Are you seeing this?
I don’t know what I’m doing.
Wow.

Spend your days walking a little slower than the world tells you to. Spend your days writing poetry, splitting wood, and playing Catan. Spend your days confessing, praying for miracles, and looking above. Spend your days walking with God, just like He has chosen to spend His days walking with you.

Please, stop staring at the comments section long enough to remember there is a real world outside your phone. Stop spending your days lamenting the good old days and start paying attention to the one you’re living in. Put down what is keeping you down and get up.

Spend your days noticing all the small ordinary things trying to remind you that your life is happening right now. The sound of laughter. The smell of coffee. The grace of God. The stars slowly lighting up the night sky. The small gifts and quiet changes that make up a life.

This is your life.

Do not rush past this.

Slow down enough to notice it.

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