Slow down everyone you’re moving too fast
Frames can’t get you when you’re moving like that

The first time I heard this chorus from Jack Johnson’s song “Inaudible Melodies” it struck me as profound. To me, these lyrics describe how we often move too fast through life. The frames seem to represent picture or movie frames. When we speed through life it is as if we are not really even here. Just a blur. Likewise, when we speed through life we do not fully see or take part in the world around us.

In the past few months I have lost a close role model and two friends of family. The message I hear over and over again during these times is to treasure this life and do the most we can to make it meaningful.

Sometimes it is not as much what we do with our time, as it is how do what we do.  Do we really put our full attention and heart into the work we do and the relationships we have? I hope that we do.