Deer are graceful creatures. Easily startled. Able to leap with a single bound…over the guardrails and into my husband’s car. It is one of the negatives of living up a winding hill in the country. Over $4,000 later (thank God for insurance) the car is back on the road and life is returning to normal. I’m rejoicing daily that no harm came to my husband in the accident. Last week I passed an ambulance at the same spot he encountered the deer: except this driver had landed in the ditch to avoid it. I prayed for them as I inched by the accident scene.

Because we live five miles up a hill, it is very easy to zoom down it and heavy-foot the gas pedal to climb back up. However…I have reverted to slow mode. I give myself extra time and cut my speed down on our deer-inhabited road. In this hurry-scurry world, we don’t realize how much we are in constant motion. Slowing my driving up and down my hill helps me to pray, focus, sing psalms and hymns,  and view the scenery.

Wow, neighbors have been re-modeling – I want a porch like that on my next house!

Whoa, what a beautiful sunrise. God is an amazing artist.

What lovely landscaping…

Instead of begrudging my lack of speed, I’m learning to live more in the moment : )

What causes you to slow down? Have you taken time today to look around you and appreciate God’s blessings?