3mph

I forget who it was, but someone once said that our brains work best at 3mph.

As in when we're walking.

The quote's from a book called 'Wanderlust' which spends some 300 plus pages talking about .. well, walking really. In all its different shapes and forms.

The writer was quoting some quite famous guy to make the point that we do our best thinking often enough when we're out and enjoying a walk.

Anything faster, and our brains don't cope too well. At least in terms of genuine, constructive thinking.

Who am I to argue?!

But it's all to do with this business of time. And whether we pace out lives aright.

I don't hear God if I go too fast. And I get pretty stale if I'm not getting out and about.

So my days are a mixture of both. And Fridays not least, when I'm wanting to get things all clear in my mind as to what the Lord's meaning to say.

Some of the day I'm stuck at my desk. Sitting, and reading; reflecting and writing; praying and starting to preach (as it were) to myself. So that I can hear God's word and feel its potent impact on my heart.

And some of the day I'm out and about as well. Walking around, calling on homes, meeting and talking and listening all of the time to what both they and the Lord have to say.

Then putting it all together. Getting the drift of just what God's word to us all has to say.

And that's best done at 3mph I suppose. I can't afford to live too fast.