Slow Down

It is an amazing time for a priest as you go through Holy Week. Your goal is to do whatever is needed to help the congregation focus on the world changing events from the life of Jesus. What can happen however is that the busy week and the pressure of the important events make you miss much of the experience yourself. I have, along with many priests, ended Holy Week with a need to regenerate. I'm not the rector at the church here, and yet my sleep pattern was changed all week. I'm an eight to nine hours of sleep kind of guy, but all last week I was lucky to get six hours. I'm happy that I found some time to swim because I meditate in the ocean, but my spiritual focus is still reduced not increased in such a busy week. I look forward to this week when life slows down even though I'm busy again. A spiritual slow down is always helpful. It is a peculiarity for me that the spiritual life improves when our pace slows down while in other areas of life results improve when our energy increases. Time to smell the roses although they are hard to find 100 yards off shore at Myrtle Beach State Park.