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Slow Dance
Posted on July 2nd, 2009 in General Leadership, Life and Family by Fred McKinnon
Have you ever watched kids
On a merry-go round?
Or listened to the rain
Slapping on the ground?
Ever followed a butterfly’s erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You better slow down
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.
Do you run through each day
On the fly?
When you ask: How are you?
Do you hear the reply?
When the day is gone,
do you lie in your bed
With the next hundred chores
Running through your head?
You’d better slow down.
Don’t go so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.
Ever told your child,
We’ll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste,
Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch,
Let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time
To call and say “Hi”?
You’d better slow down.
Don’t dance so fast.
Time is short.
The music won’t last.
When you run so fast to get somewhere
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
It is like an unopened gift thrown away.
Life is not a race
Do take it slower.
Hear the music.
Before the song is over.
(a poem written by child psychologist David L. Weatherford, as quoted in “4-Hour Work Week”, Timothy Ferriss)
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I’ve read this before somewhere, but really needed to see it again. How appropriate for us in such days of hectic living. The Father has really been dealing with me for about two months now about “ordering priorities”. If not ordered by His word (Matthew 6:33) we’re headed in the wrong direction (and at a fast pace).
welcome back, Dad! BTW, you’re still putting @alltel in your email addY!
Great poem. God has recently worked things out for me to spend more time at home with the kids and it has been great.