TRAVELING THROUGH LIFE
I went on a trip out West. It reminded me of life. First we traveled on the interstate. That covered a lot of ground fast. As I travel I like to watch what we go by. Houses, towns, whatever, but I especially liked to watch the country. The rural areas, the landscape, the animals and, where possible, nature.
On the Interstate you can get the big picture. Things just zip by. What was that we just zipped by? I’m not sure. It looked like an old barn or was it a house? That’s the way things are on the Interstate Highway.
Now we are in the mountains. We get on a State road. The speed is much slower. Now we see trees, big rocks, a big animal.
A dirt trail! Let’s take it. It’s rough. Now we go very slow. Look at all the flowers that appeared in a mountain meadow. Have they been there all along?
See all the animals, marmots, prairie dogs, elk in the edge of the trees, bison in their wallows, moose in the ponds. There is even a bear browsing on a hillside.
If we had been traveling at interstate speed we would have never seen them. By simply slowing down we see that there is a whole world we were missing.
By the same token, most of us live fast lives. Trying to get to all the things we feel we need to experience, we speed through life.
Only when we slow down and take time to look can we experience this world at a whole deeper level. I am in my 80’s now. I go slower. I see more. I missed a lot when I was speeding along in life. I wish I had gone a little slower at times and noticed more.
I think that is often the way we live in the Spiritual World. We miss so much because we are rushing to the next major place, never slowing to look closely at the present.