Didn’t hear from many of you after last post (about stirring up your gifts), though a number told me in person that it spoke to them. I’m grateful when that happens. And I do like the response; it lets me know someone’s out there, reading, thinking with me.<\/p>\n
On another topic, here’s a quote that convicts. It’s about the waste of haste, from a pastor relating what he said was the most profound regret in life:<\/p>\n
“Being in a hurry. Getting to the next thing without fully entering the thing in front of me. I cannot think of a single advantage I’ve ever gained from being in a hurry. But a thousand broken and missed things, tens of thousands, lie in the wake of all the rushing . . . . Through all that haste I thought I was making up time<\/em>. It turns out I was throwing it away.”<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n It’s quoted in the beautifully written,\u00a0One Thousand Gifts, Dare to Live Fully Right Where You Are<\/em>, by Ann Voskamp. More about that another day perhaps. For now it’s just that one quote by a pastor, in the context of a funeral, that captures my attention and catches me up short.<\/p>\n The pastor’s not named, but maybe just as well, as it’s something most of us could say if we thought about it.<\/p>\n That’s all.<\/p>\n (Keeping this one short as I know you have much else to do. Me too.)<\/p>\n Next, about slowing time down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Like with the mighty oak, trying to hurry the process changes not a thing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7487"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7487"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10693,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7487\/revisions\/10693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyattmoore.com\/blank-slate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}