Slow Down - where are you going? -- Why the rush?

Good morning all. God is good all the time, all the time God is good.  TOO BLESSED TO BE STRESSED!  Jesu Jevu!!

   Today, actually these past few days God has been speaking to me about people rushing here and there, always on a mission, hurry, hurry, hurry and for what?  Yesterday a friend stopped for a moment and said the work will be here, you have a nice place - enjoy it and don't worry about all you feel or think needs to be done.

  As I travel with my job I see people rushing  - on a mission - to go -----nowhere! Then my friend who is going to Colorado for 5 months sent this to me.  (I have another devotion that will follow in another email).  Here is what Jerry sent:
     Slow Dance This is a poem written by a teenager with cancer. She wants to see how many people get her poem. It is quite a poem, please pass it on. This poem was written by a terminally ill young girl in a New York Hospital. It was sent by a medical doctor
 THE POEM. SLOW DANCE
Have you ever watched kids on a merry-go-round?
Or listened to the rain slapping on the ground?
 Ever followed a butterfly's erratic flight?
Or gazed at the sun into the fading night?
You better slow down.
 Don't dance so fast. Time is short.
The music won't last.

Do you run through each day on the fly?
When you ask, “How are you?” Do you hear the reply?
 When the day is done, do you lie in your bed, with the next hundred chores running through your head?
You'd better slow down Don't dance so fast.
 Time is short The music won't last.

Ever told your child, We'll do it tomorrow?
And in your haste, Not see his sorrow?
Ever lost touch, let a good friendship die
Cause you never had time To call and say,'Hi'
 You'd better slow down. Don't dance so fast.
Time is short. The music won't last..

When you run so fast to get somewhere,
You miss half the fun of getting there.
When you worry and hurry through your day,
 It is like an unopened gift.... Thrown away.
Life is not a race. Do take it slower
Hear the music Before the song is over.

Take time now to stop, reflect, and think about what you are doing and where you are going with your life.  Love you all

Soli Deo Gloria
Johnny