It’s the first day back to school here in my sweet little hometown of Austin, MN. I spent the morning pouring through posts & pictures on Facebook of friends & family sharing glimpses of their morning. There were the sweet little smiles of Kindergarteners waiting for the big yellow bus to pick them up and take them off to school for an entire day. There were excited Seniors ready to conquer their final year and enjoy all the lasts this year will offer them. Some parents posted of their excitement to ship the kids off to school and to a more structured routine. Others were white knuckling it as they dropped off their kids and the door shut behind them.
“The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.” -Mark Twain
I have been trying to hit the pause button in my life a little more often lately.
It seems the busier life gets, the less time I have to pause and yet….the craving for the pause grows stronger within me.
To be perfectly honest with you, pausing can be hard for me. With all the hustle and bustle of life I find myself scurrying from one noisy thing to the next. And while I crave the quiet I am also at times uncomfortable with the quiet.
