Unbothered Time

I still remember chatting with a friend of mine in college who had cheered with me that he had written the entirety of his senior sermon on his drive home from Indiana to Pennsylvania. That 9, :00 and some odd hours drive had been his chance to think, to ruminate, And to meditate. Which none of that was overly surprising to me. It was the fact that when he said right, he meant that he had quite literally put pen to yellow legal pad paper while driving. 

It's fascinating how much our minds can be freed up when we're driving somewhere. It's also interesting to me. How much more in tune we can be with what we're thinking or how we're feeling when there's really not much else we can do. For me, I don't ever realize how incredibly tired I am until I find myself on a long drive. It's like my body has stopped moving just enough to finally catch up with the exhaustion of my spirit. 

Leave it to a long commute and the work of the holy Spirit to speak truth to our lives. What a gift this unbothered time can be, if we will allow it. I suppose that's why shower thoughts can feel so profound: there's nowhere else we can be while we are where we are, so it allows our minds to wander for a while., we can discover what God has been trying to say to us all along. What God has been trying to communicate to us if we just slow down long enough to listen. 

When's your next long drive or next moment when you'll have a long period of unbroken time? Maybe it's mowing the lawn or vacuuming the house. Maybe it's chopping, wood or quilting a blanket. There are moments in life where we have long bouts of mundane work or travel time where we can allow our minds to reconnect with the centering of the Holy Spirit. Let us not just fill this time with noise, but seek the opportunity to truly reconnect with our Creator.

 - Rev. Allison Yankey