More travelling
I just woke up from a 9 hour sleep and still feel like a Mack truck ran me over, which actually would probably be a bit worse. Still on my travels through the midwest, before this last night’s sleep, I really hadn’t slept since Monday night-Tuesday morning, and am still pretty tired.
This morning Ray and I make our way to Cincinnati. This is the point of the trip, and I’d like it to be longer, but alas I have a meeting at 4:00 pm tomorrow at the church that I need to be there for. I’ll make frequent updates here to let you know if I’m on schedule or not.
I really did get to spend some quality time with my parents, grandparents, and even my cousin Mike last night. I did not however get to watch the Celtics crush the Hawks and expose them for who they really are, but sleep was more important anyway.
Eventually I’ll post pictures and more stuff from tis trip, bur ever since I switched my blog software to WordPress 2.5, I can’t upload pictures from my computer to this blog, so I’ll have to fix that first.
This trip has been so great! Though its going to be short, I’m still learning to “travel in the speed of love.” One step at a time, meeting new people. Caring about people I already know, and making the most of every opportunity.
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One of the things that I love about this illustration, Marty, is that it illuminates how the speed of love is not a number at all.
It’s easy to think that traveling at the speed of love is all about slowing down.
But the truth is that if we slowed down too much we’d get nothing– including loving– done.
This great story of yours demonstrates that sometimes moving at the speed of love entails speeding up some things. You are rushing back for the meeting, for example, moving at a pace that wouldn’t be required of you if you’d stayed home and taken the easy way out.
I wonder if the speed of love isn’t a constant number. It’s more like the speed limit. The number attached to the speed limit changes. In some places it’s 65 MPH and in other places it’s 25 MPH. There is this driving concept behind a speed limit: that driving concept is safety. As a general rule, we need to slow down to obey the speed limit because our natural tendency is to exceed it. Similarly, as a general rule, we need to slow down to move at the speed of love. The thoughts I got out of your blogs is that there ought to be a driving concept behind the speed with which we live our lives. The point isn’t always to be going slow. The point is to be moving at whatever pace allows us to best practice love.
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upload pics to flickr and then you simply copy and paste right into your post… at least, that’s how I do it on WP.
Hope you are well…