Something worth pondering!

With the pace of life increasingly ’speeding up’ and tiredness, anxiety and the ‘no-time for the important  syndrome’ ever being heard around us I found this quote very refreshing and challenging.

This is a quote from a book called, “Gift from the Sea” by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“As far as the search for silence and solitude is concerned, we live in a negative atmosphere, as invisible, as all-pervasive and as enervating as high humidity in an August afternoon. The world does not understand today, in either man or woman, the need to be alone.

How inexplicable it seems! Anything else will be accepted as a better excuse. If one sets aside time for a business appointment, a trip to the hair dresser, a social engagement, or a shopping expedition, that time will be accepted as inviolable. But if one says, ‘I cannot come because it is my hour to be alone,’ one is considered rude, egotistical, or strange. What a commentary on our civilization, when being alone is considered suspect; when one has to apologise for it, make excuses, hide the fact that one practices solitude – like a secret vice.”

Let us take time to steep ourselves in God-reality by drawing aside with Him!