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Taking a Time-Out for God: Know When to Slow Down





Days like today (when I don’t feel well) are given to slow me down so that I will listen. Our need in society is to stay busy which drowns out having to hear something we may not want to hear, or just drowning out the voice of God in general. I do otherwise try to just stay busy and feel weird when I am not. God knows that sometimes I will not slow down to make take the time-out on my own so He slows me down.

In this society, we are made to feel that if we just sit with God, we are doing nothing or being lazy or not getting anything accomplished which translates to “looser.” So, if we don’t make the quiet time to be with God, He will do it for us and we may not always like the way He goes about it. Better to do it of our own accord than to wait for it to be thrust upon us. And He will keep doing it until we realize that the time is for Him.



Perhaps once we commit fully to making that time each day, we will then begin the healing process in the areas of our lives in which we feel lack which propels us to overwork in the first place. Once we see that there is nothing more important than our quiet time with the Lord, everything will simply fall into place much easier and f it doesn’t, then that time is even more valuable to help us through the trials of each day.

Tips for knowing when to slow:
  • Watch for the signs; we usually know when we need to slow or stop. 
  • Identify these times (or better yet, schedule a certain quiet time each day), 
  • Resist the urge to push past it to keep on doing. Stop when it's time to stop.


Psalm 46:10
10 Be still, and know that I am God:




About Cheryl Yale-Bruedigam



Cheryl Yale-Bruedigam has been writing spiritually for thirty years. With undergraduate studies in English and women's studies, she devoted over a decade of research and writing to women’s studies and spirituality. Author of What If We Are the Angels and The New Age of Christ (among others), she is now teaching and sharing A Woman's Path to Wholeness Through Biblical Teachings.

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