I have spent much of my life in a hurry. In traffic, I want to go faster. Standing in line at the grocery store, I want the line to move faster. My mind is even worse. Sometimes I wonder if thinking rivals the speed of light. In an instant, my thoughts leap to worries, plans, regrets, and imagined futures. They are always propelling me somewhere other than where I am—certainly somewhere other than where my soul resides.
Yet the soul is not in a hurry. It is still. While our thoughts race and the world spins around us, the soul remains anchored in the present moment. We are not the movie playing on the screen of life; we are the observer. We are the awareness witnessing it all unfold.
As I grow older, I am learning to watch more and interfere less. To listen instead of constantly speaking. To resist interrupting what God may be showing me. I try not to become entangled in every scene of the movie surrounding me. There is a quiet wisdom in simply witnessing, in allowing life to unfold without feeling compelled to control every outcome.
With God, there is no rush, no striving, no frantic movement from one moment to the next. He simply is. When Moses asked God His name, the Lord replied:
"I AM WHO I AM." (Exodus 3:14)
What a profound mystery. Not I was. Not I will be. Simply I AM.
In those words is a reality beyond our comprehension. God exists outside of time and space, yet is fully present within them. He is the eternal Now. His love requires no effort, no performance, no achievement. It simply is. The One who holds the universe in the span of His hand is not anxious, hurried, or disturbed by the passing of time.
And perhaps that is what He is inviting us into—not a life free of responsibility, but a life free of hurry. A life lived in His presence. A life where our souls no longer race to catch up with our bodies because we have finally learned to rest in the One who simply says,
"I AM."
