PAUSE AWHILE

We eat, we work, we shop, we run around, and we tire. We get physically weary. We get emotionally weary. And we wonder why our life seems to be going full speed ahead nowhere— aimlessly, pointlessly, recklessly.

I got up early one morning

and rushed right into the day

I had so much to accomplish,

I didn’t have time to pray.

Troubles just tumbles around me,

And heavier came each task;

Why doesn’t God help me? I wondered,

He answered, “You didn’t ask.”

I wanted to see joy and beauty,

But the day toiled on grey and bleak

I called on the Lord for the reason,

He said, “You didn’t seek.”

The Anonymous poet then wrote an epilogue:

 I woke up early one morning,

And paused before entering the day;

I had so much to accomplish,

That I had to take time to pray

“I had to take time to pray.” The spiritual pause that refreshes is absolutely necessary for our life-enrichment. There is no way to maintain spiritual good health without prayer.

“Pause awhile,” says the Lord. “Pause awhile and know that I am God.” (Ps. 46:10)