Stop & Smell the Roses

Life gets busy.  Life gets rushed.  But you know what my babies have taught me?  It doesn't need to be like that.  We need to SLOW DOWN!  Life goes fast enough as it is.  Why must we push it to be even faster?

My babies have no sense of hurry, at all.  Sometimes Dusty and I get frustrated at that.  Sometimes we lose our patience.  But then sometimes, we stop, and we quit rushing, and we let them do what they want, go at their pace, and not force them to fit into this hectic world they are already so adept to. 

They have showed me that a few seconds, or minutes, don't matter, at all.  So what if it is hot out and we have 25 things in our arms we are trying to carry in?  Will walking that much faster really matter?  Just this weekend, I snapped this picture of them as we were trying to get them inside after a quick shopping trip after church.  They were in no hurry.  Why rush to get inside?  It was a beautiful day and the roses were blooming, and all they cared about was stopping and smelling the roses. 

Kanon and Remi have learned that flowers smell good from their Grammie.  And now, any time they see a flower, fake or real, they ask if they can smell it. 

Why can't we as adults be more like that?  Why can't we see something, and stop and take in it's beauty instead of rushing past it, rushing through the moment?  How much sweeter would life be if we could just force ourselves to slow down and live in the moment, instead of always thinking of the next 10 things we need to do and agonizing over there not being enough time to do those things. 

Lessons learned from Kanon and Remi...