Slow Down!

My favorite radio station is the station owned and operated by the Diocese of St Petersburg, and the other day I heard Abby on The Big Big Morning Show talk about how they were going to do these 7 steps over the next 7 days. Caught my attention and I love the heart and spirit of Mother Teresa--she was a true follower of Christ.

Step 1: SLOW DOWN! “I think the world today is upside down. Everybody seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater development and greater riches and so on. There is much suffering because there is so very little love in homes and in family life. We have no time for our children, we have no time for each other; there is no time to enjoy each other. In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world.”

Wow, how true. Technology....cell phones, pagers, TV, computers, video games, movies on phones, phones on TV, computer on TV, phones in cars. No one looks at each other any more, we text, we don't talk, we shop online, we chat online instead of talking on the phone. Communication is a dying (or dead) art. WE are in so much of a hurry to get somewhere and do something that we are doing two or three things at once (and none of them well). We HAVE to take time to talk to our families, our friends, our children, our parents, and especially our Lord.