time out

Your day is flying by as you fumble through your mental “to do list”. Everyone has that time during a busy day where you face the grim reality that you are in fact not a super hero and you only have 24 hours in each day. That was me tonight…

I was in my car playing speed racer to beat the clock, trying to check one more thing off my daunting to do list. An oncoming fire engine with lights and sirens immediately caused traffic to halt. I pulled off to the side of the road, turned down my blaring radio and patiently watched it approach. As I sat there on a busy street, with hundreds of cars around me, at a dead stop, it made me think.

We all as citizen’s stop, pull off to the side of the road, and wait for an emergency vehicle to pass right? When else do you stop? When do you take a moment to pull off the little road of life? What if that fire engine was your life? Imagine it as the daily stresses, hurts, and frustrations, to do lists, chores, homework, bills, and nagging, toxic, annoyances? Would you stay on the road and let it run you over? No way! Anyone with any brains would gladly pause their busy rushing to clear the roadway until it passed.

It made me think.

It’s okay to slow down sometimes.