Tuesday, June 24, 2008

Slow Walk




"And the slower the walk the better...




the most productive pace is a snail's pace.



A large part of [a] walk is often spent standing still.




A mile an hour may well be fast enough.





For [the] goal is different from that of the pedestrian.




It is not how far he goes that counts;





it is not how fast he goes;



it is how much he sees."


~Edwin Way Teale, Journey into Summer




"Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day,





rarely of what they had seen."

-Louis L'Amour


Lord, let my walk today be slow. What am I in such a hurry for? Slow me. Still me. Remind me that is not how fast I go. But what I see. And I want to see glimpses of You.


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Photos: Taken on a long, quiet walk through Versailles and Marie Antoinette's Little Hamlet

 

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