.....and Breathe

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Do you have time in your diary just to think?

 No, because that would be weird!

 Although I don’t schedule in time just to think I have no doubt about how necessary it is.

I would even say that thinking time should be such a priority, that if your thinking time doesn’t get diary time it is only because you just take it just as seriously as meal times or time to use the bathroom!

 

We all need time to think, time to breathe, time to just …… be.

 

Time to read then process what you just read.

Time to speak to God and listen to His response.

Time to look out the window and daydream.

Time to examine what I think about yesterday and tomorrow.

Time to organise thoughts.

Time to plan, to look ahead and re-assess.

Time to consider, to savour and to wonder.

 

When I worked my whole day was a race: race from one appointment to school to the shops to the housework to a friend and to cook, to eat, to chores, to bed - I barely had time to wee let alone stop the world just to think!

 I recognise how blessed I am that my nowadays can be littered with head-space times and I do know that for most of us it is completely unrealistic. But for many of us we do actually have the time and we do have the space.

The gaps in between the busy have been handed to us, we just make the choice to fill them with stuff!



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In these two pictures from cretivebloq the space in between is the actual image. Peter and the Wolf is so striking to me because of the detail-less Peter created in the space.

 

What would these images look like if they were filled with more scrolling?

It is in the space between that you discover, that you replenish, that you can take the time to understand.

It is in the space between that you unearth your hopes and dreams.

It is in the space between that you can explore your hurts, discover why your defences are up, find out why it bothers you so much.

It is in the space between that you discover what you want from life and begin to work on a plan to get it.

 

The pause button is on every remote but only we can make the decision to hit it.

 

 


 

Matt Jones#rebelpathways, #rebelhealth, #illustration, #illustrationart, #illustrator, #illustrations, #childrensillustration, #childrensbooks, #bookillustration, #inspiration, #motivation, #kidlitart, #kidlit, #cute, #beencouraged, #feelwell, #thinkwell, #differentperspective, #seethingsdifferentlyComment