We long to make a break from the fast pace of life, but if we’re honest, we’re afraid of what we’ll miss if we do. Yet when going big and hustling hard leaves us stressed, empty, and out of sorts, perhaps this can be our cue to step into a far more satisfying, sustainable pace. Jennifer Dukes Lee is on the show today sharing a path to unhurried living by returning to the rhythm of the land and learning the ancient art of Growing Slow.
Topics of conversation:
- Finding the true relief that comes when you stop running and start resting in Jesus
- Learning practices for unhurrying your heart and mind every day
- Letting go of the pressure and embrace the small, good things already bearing fruit in your life
- Engaging and celebrating slow growth
Tune in to enter a simpler way of living by unhurrying your heart, embracing the relaxed rhythms of nature, and discovering the meaningful gift of growing slow.
Quotes:
“Our Neverland can morph into God’s promised land.”
“In life, we face seasonal storms where everything seems like it’s in jeopardy.”
“Our culture tells us that we should be constantly in a cycle of plant, growth, harvest. A lot of us do not winter very well. But winter has its own purposes.”
“The book I probably could have written easier is growing fast.”
“I had a hurried heart. I was suffering from hurried sickness.”
“It wasn’t about how clear my calendar was or how many things I said yes or no to. It was about the state of my heart.”
“There was a dissatisfaction with the pace of my growth in life. I had this constant feeling that I was falling behind and needed to hurry up to reach some new milestone.”
“If God made the land that way then He likely made me that way too.”
“You can’t hurry and connect with people at the same time. Unhurrying results in deeper and more meaningful relationships.”
“It takes time to grow good things.”
“It takes time to grow good relationships. This includes my relationship with God and my relationship with myself.”
“There’s always some new milestone you’re reaching and stretching for and that creates a lack of peace and a sense of rushing.”
“When our calendars were stripped away it gave us an opportunity to look at our coping mechanisms. I soothe the difficult places in my life with productivity.”
“As we get back to normal we have to think about how much normal we really want back. The very best things take the longest to grow.”
“I can see in reverse what I couldn’t see in real time.”
“Even as I was parenting my girls God was parenting me.”
“It is important to reflect on not only the growth happening through us but the growth happening within us.”
“We are quick to look around and measure outputs.”
“If we grow fast, we don’t put down good roots and if we don’t put down good roots we can’t withstand the storms of life.”
“Any success that you see generally has a lot of work behind it. We look at the end product and don’t see the messy beginning and messy middle.”
“Sometimes we don’t appreciate the growth that we’ve already had.”
“What if we allow the winter season to bring healing in us?”
Paper rocks:
Jennifer Dukes Lee
PO Box 327
Inwood, Iowa 51240
“There is power in naming what hurts.”
“Remember, reflect, and return.”
This week’s love offering is to “encourage the slow growth in the people around us. Call out the goodness in them. God is growing something beautiful out of our successes and also those things that feel like failures.”
“This world is calling us to offer our wit, intelligence, and brawn, but what if we flip the script and say we are called to be a love offering above all.”
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