Slow Me Down, Lord ~ BJ Morbitzer ~ Living Each Day

Ease the pounding of my heart
by the quieting of my mind.

Steady my harried pace
with a vision of the eternal reach of time.

Give me, amidst the confusions of my day,
the calmness of the everlasting hills.

Break the tensions of my nerves
with the soothing music of the singing
streams that live in my memory.

Help me to know
the magical restoring power of sleep.

To chat with an old friend or make a new one;
To pet a stray dog;

To watch a spider build a web;
To smile at a child;

Or to read a few lines from a good book.

Remind me each day that the race
is not always to the swift;

That there is more to life than
increasing speed.

Let me look upward into the branches
of the towering oak and know
that it grew slowly and well.

Slow me down, Lord,
and inspire me to send my roots deep
into the soil of life's enduring values
that I may grow toward the stars
of my greater destiny.

BJ Morbitzer

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