Stop and Savor

I was thinking yesterday about time, how there are so many good things that I want to do :)!

"God can slow down time, if He wants to," I thought, thinking of the war in the Bible where the sun was slowed and stopped in it's place.

"Right now," the answer came, "your job is to pick one and savor it."

Immediately, the book we have been reading as a family, the "Remembering Isaac" series by Behunin came to mind, the story of a potter.  A very slow story.  One book takes up about 2 weeks of the character's life.  But it is a beautiful story and very interesting. It is truly an author savoring his tale as he unfolds it, full of truth and meaning.  The potter lives a very simple life and I think that is what I am to be learning from it during this reading...the beauty of simplicity.  Wow. This is unfortunately going to be a hard lesson for me and one that may take some time.

Another character in the book comments about the art of pottery, how it takes time moreso than most art forms.  It just takes time.  People had come to the previous potter to watch him work, to talk, to learn from his quiet wisdom.  The new potter, Jake, learns from these stories considers whether this is the life he wants to choose.  This whole book is about choices: choices learned from and choices to make.

God truly is the potter and we all are the work of His hands.  As we strive to become like Him, we take our own lives and slowly shape it.  Some parts require firing.  Some require sitting.  And some parts require motion and action and shaping.  I guess it helps to try and recognize what our seasons are:

 1 To every thing there is a ^aseason, and a ^btime to every purpose under the heaven:
 2 A ^atime to be born, and a time to ^bdie; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;
 3 A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
 4 A time to weep, and a time to ^alaugh; a time to ^bmourn, and a time to dance;
 5 A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
 6 A time to ^aget, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
 7 A time to ^arend, and a time to sew; a time to keep^bsilence, and a time to speak;
 8 A time to love, and a time to ^ahate; a time of war, and a time of peace.
 9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he^alaboureth?
 10 I have seen the ^atravail, which God hath given to the sons of men to be ^bexercised in it.
 11 He hath made every thing ^abeautiful in his time: also^bhe hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the ^cwork that God maketh from the beginning to the end.