Slow Eatters
Have you ever been on a date with a woman and realized before she is half way done you have finished your entire meal? You almost consume it like it was going to run away from you leaving you hungry and lonely. I have found when I sit down to a meal I eat much faster than most, especially faster than females. Growing up I have one brother a father and a mother, three males fighting over the last pork chop, so in a way you can see where the habit came from. This has been my excuse for many years until I started looking around. So many people in this world are on the go. There time is sooo precious they must be constantly moving, talking and doing. Hense the great efficiency of the fast eatter. My only problem is this seems to hurt you in many ways. Just as my father always taught me "cheaper isn't always better", efficiency isn't always the right way but it seems to be the easy way. Now I come to the slow eatters did you know that they say if you eat a meal at a slower speed you get full faster because you are giving yourself time to have the food get to your stomach. Slower eatting also gives you time to just enjoy the taste of your food instead of cramming every mouthful of what ever is infront of you. Wax candles....not a good taste. Conversation with a person is much more agreeable when you have slowed how much you are consuming in one bite, your manners also reflect a better light.
All this talk about food and eatting really leads to one envitable point that our lives always seem to be on super speed mode. We constantly ask ourselves where, what or how do I do the next thing. Life becomes a series of tasks that must be fulfilled or we feel like failures. But I ask the question why? I think we need to take something from the slow-eatters. A person that slows down and gathers patience sees the world around him instead of zooming by in a car. God calls us to be quick to patience and quick to listen but slow to anger. If we are always moving how can we notice when God is trying to talk to us. It is like the difference between how a pedestrian experiences a city opposed to a person in a car. In a car you zoom along only gathering what you see from flashes of images as they go by, while a pedestrian walks and gathers everything in his environment. They see the smallest crack in the sidewalk. That is what we should always be able to notice the crack in the sidewalk because from that small a thing God could be talking, but how can we respond when we are driving 50 miles an hour down some interstate to the next task we have assigned for ourselves.
All this talk about food and eatting really leads to one envitable point that our lives always seem to be on super speed mode. We constantly ask ourselves where, what or how do I do the next thing. Life becomes a series of tasks that must be fulfilled or we feel like failures. But I ask the question why? I think we need to take something from the slow-eatters. A person that slows down and gathers patience sees the world around him instead of zooming by in a car. God calls us to be quick to patience and quick to listen but slow to anger. If we are always moving how can we notice when God is trying to talk to us. It is like the difference between how a pedestrian experiences a city opposed to a person in a car. In a car you zoom along only gathering what you see from flashes of images as they go by, while a pedestrian walks and gathers everything in his environment. They see the smallest crack in the sidewalk. That is what we should always be able to notice the crack in the sidewalk because from that small a thing God could be talking, but how can we respond when we are driving 50 miles an hour down some interstate to the next task we have assigned for ourselves.
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