The Hardest Repentance

During a night when sleep seemed to be in another room, I found myself moving about the house and finally stepping outside on the front porch.  To my surprise the hold darkness had on the earth was being broken by a sun that was still hiding under the eastern edge of the earth.  I stood there seeing what there was to see in that early morning light.   It occurred to me in those moments of looking that the sun was in no hurry to show itself.  The sun never seems to hurry.  It simply does it's thing every day in it's own time with no sense of hurrying, or being in a hurry.

 

We are the ones who hurry.  Of all the creatures in the creation, we are the one that hurries, stays in a hurry, and seems to forget all about the lessons of patience and waiting, lessons which the creation is always teaching us.  Everything else moves and grows without hurry.  Yet, as smart as we are and from our perch of having dominion over all things, we ignore one of the most basic laws of the created order.  Not even the Creator of the creation gets in a hurry.  We hold the market on always hurrying from one place and thing to another.

 

Hurrying does nothing to add to the number of our days, nor does it add to the quality of our days.  Actually, it only diminishes both the number and their quality. Though smart enough to know such is true, we still run from one thing to another without breathing.  Perhaps, this hurrying of ours is one of our greatest temptation and most common sins.  Who would have ever thought hurrying was a cause for repentance?  Of course, to repent means more than acknowledgment, but turning away to another choice.