slowing down | slowing down
Mar.28.2013
A staycation suits me best during Easter holiday.
Early morning in prayer seeking divine guidance, a bird landed outside my window chirping.
I took it as an affirmation from above.
Going to the gym feels calmer.
No one is in a rush to finish the routine just to get to work on time.
I don’t...
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Feb.05.2012
I’ve been forced to slow down. A stomach virus decided I was going too fast. I’m not certain who gave it a vote, frankly, but it was more of a coup than an election. The new regime decides I should sleep – interspersed with moaning now and then. The new rules require me to spend hours staring out...
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Jun.26.2011
I started my day early and was dreading what felt like would be a long Monday feeling slightly off balance thinking and worrying about many small things.
What a wonderful surprise to bump into my mother’s eldest sister! It felt like I was looking and talking to mom.
We chatted a bit while...
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Mar.12.2011
It’s a pity not knowing what to do with time and space in between.
Sitting on top of the career ladder, one’s world is everything but silent.
Decisions to make, meetings to attend… rush, rush, rush.
The lull in between comes and goes but when it arrives and stays a while… uh oh… What to...
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Nov.07.2010
A songwriter friend of mine named Elizabeth Edwards wrote this in her newsletter:
"How was it that with all this technology supposedly making life easier, I felt as if I were just a rock skipping across the surface of my life. Information overload made me tired and I became aware of how...
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Jan.16.2010
Pace, which looks like “pacè” (peace) and is, or can be, belongs to interval rather than action. It divides and unites us - breeds, bears, and delivers what we are, what we do. There is pace in the momentum of disconnection - the synapse into which energy must leap or forever die.
The essence of...
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Dec.06.2009
As Christmas approaches, and life becomes busier with the celebrations of the season, I enjoy settling down for a few minutes each day to remember the reason for the joy we have. I'm sharing an excerpt from my daily devotional, The One Year Mini for Busy Women, published in Tyndale House's The One...
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Oct.23.2009
Today I sent out my quarterly newsletter - if you've not signed up yet, put your email in the box on the right hand side (under the followers).
It always has a competition to win free books, and you can enter too - just send an email titled 'Thaw' to fiona@fionarobyn.com by the end of November and...
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Jun.19.2009
I'm a TV-eater. When meals are ready I take the plate through to the living room and put something on. If I'm eating alone in public I'll make sure I have a book with me.
Lunch today was a wedge of cheese and potato tortilla with rocket, cherry tomato and beetroot salad. None of it from the garden...
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Dec.29.2008
Does it have to be done?
Does it have to be done now?
Can I delegate it?
Does it have to be perfect?
Is there a simpler way to do it?
—La Leche League
I clear the way for a simpler life. I leave spaces in my day and remove the word “hurry” from my vocabulary. I prune every unnecessary...
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