{"id":414,"date":"2009-07-02T23:36:37","date_gmt":"2009-07-02T23:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeasprayer.wordpress.com\/?p=414"},"modified":"2009-07-02T23:36:37","modified_gmt":"2009-07-02T23:36:37","slug":"challenge-to-not-make-haste","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/challenge-to-not-make-haste\/","title":{"rendered":"Challenge: To not make haste"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-414 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/challenge-to-not-make-haste\/lyaw\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"90\" height=\"137\" src=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/lyaw.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/challenge-to-not-make-haste\/jo\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"98\" height=\"74\" src=\"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/jo.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Chapter 5 of John <a href=\"http:\/\/www.johnortberg.com\">Ortberg<\/a>&#8216;s\u00a0book, <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=tRAAHWPNru8C&amp;pg=PA76&amp;lpg=PA76&amp;dq=john+ortberg+unhurried&amp;source=bl&amp;ots=tXYiKgRGca&amp;sig=midbQBwxZIewToEFUoeGrup7Xtg&amp;hl=en&amp;ei=bztNSqarGYjmlAfUo-GyBQ&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=book_result&amp;ct=result&amp;resnum=2\">&#8220;The Life You Always Wanted&#8221;<\/a>, is called, &#8220;The Practice of &#8216;Slowing&#8217;.&#8221; He details a discipline, or spiritual way, of living an unhurried life. As a way to challenge the typical tendency to rush, Ortberg challenges his readers to look for the longest checkout line, and wait in that one. Sounds\u00a0frustrating, right? The idea is to challenge how one views time, actions, and life as a whole.<\/p>\n<p>John&#8217;s experiment gives a person a jump start strategy to begin to enjoy <em>all<\/em> of life, even the little things that get rushy. No part of living is wasted. Something that was once frustrating can actually turn into a positive. Instead of an urgent hardship, the experience is controlled by the person, rather than happening <em>to them<\/em>. \u00a0It is also experienced\u00a0for it&#8217;s own benefit, not just as a means to something else. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Regarding time and busyness: The practice moves the\u00a0practitioner\u00a0away from being a habitual slave to\u00a0urgency, and a\u00a0indentured\u00a0servant to the clock. As it turns out, an unhurried life will create more opportunities than one ever thought possible. Creating cushions of time is even likely to save one time, and establish invaluable connections, not possible for a routinely rushed individual.<\/p>\n<p><em>Boiling it down, &#8220;being unhurried&#8221; is to say one is, &#8220;moving, acting, and\u00a0existing\u00a0without urgency or haste.&#8221; In an emergency, this way must be\u00a0abandoned for a time. But, in normal circumstances, why spend life so quickly, since we can&#8217;t get it back?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Things once\u00a0unnoticeable, become things such as pleasant surprises, little awakenings, newfound interactions, joys, plus experiences and insights aplenty. When we plan to give ourselves extra time to experience an unhurried life, or at least, far larger chunks of it unhurried compared to before, we enjoy more peace of mind, and well-being.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve personally found it&#8217;s also a wonderful surprise to hear more Divine &#8220;whispers,&#8221; and see more Divine &#8220;appointments&#8221; placed in our path, once we sideline our hurried manner, and ease into a more organic way of living.<\/p>\n<p>Try John&#8217;s checkout line experiment, at least once. If you do, please leave a reply about it. (Did it make you insane, or was it valuable?) And-if you do it more than 3 times, in two weeks, I&#8217;d really like to hear if it&#8217;s changed anything for you. I have a new contact page if you&#8217;d prefer that method, or just leave a comment below.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks.<\/p>\n<p>Have a slower day :)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The freeing discipline of living an unhurried life, and the &#8220;Ortberg checkout line experiment.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,9,76],"tags":[530,1001,1187,1242,1341,1588,1612,1734,1735,1782,1867,1882,2016,2243,2512,3068,3192,74,75,6539,3399,3448,3550,3666],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-books","category-spirituality","tag-busy","tag-divine","tag-experiment","tag-fast","tag-frantic","tag-haste","tag-hectic","tag-hurried","tag-hurry","tag-insane","tag-john-ortberg","tag-joy","tag-life","tag-modern","tag-peace","tag-shopping","tag-spiritual-discipline","tag-spiritual-growth","tag-spiritual-practices","tag-spirituality","tag-the-life-you-always-wanted","tag-time-saving","tag-unhurried-life","tag-well-being"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lisadelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}