Summer is drawing to a close and it has been HOT!. I know this because school busses are on the road; teachers are back to work; Wal-Mart is filled with school supplies, and parents are busy getting their students ready for a great year. My whole life moves in rhythms and this time of year through the fall has always been my very favorite season. Each fall I am reminded that “for everything there is a season.” One would think moving to Florida would have changed that but no. I still anticipate “Indian summer,” even though it never really cools down until winter.
One of the things I like the most is that everything seems to slow dow. Summers are busy for everyone. The longer I live it seems this never changes. As fall comes, help us Lord to sit down to a different rhythm and spend time in something other than business. So how will we discipline ourselves and to what?
I would encourage you to start some chair time. Spend fifteen minutes a day in a chair with no noise, nothing to read, no planning, no strategizing, just in quiet. It is not as easy as you think and will take a few weeks to develop. I fully expect God to respond to those who have “ears to hear.”