{"id":1643,"date":"2016-02-16T05:06:02","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T12:06:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/?p=1643"},"modified":"2016-02-23T21:21:49","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T04:21:49","slug":"savoring-the-moment-a-sermon-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/?p=1643","title":{"rendered":"Savoring the Moment: A Sermon for Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15015.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/mikebellah.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x15015.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"mb_color_bestyearsblog-150x1501\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1644\" \/><\/a>Today, I handed back Essay #1. Next week, they\u2019ll give me Essay #2. Two weeks later, they\u2019ll take the midterm. And the week after is Spring Break.<\/p>\n<p>Really?<\/p>\n<p>What is it about being busy that makes time speed up? Einstein had it partly right: Time not only is relative to the speed of light, but to the speed of life.<\/p>\n<p>Which is a scary thought. Busyness can shorten time. Like clicking the fast-forward icon when playing a good movie, one gets to the end, but at the expense of enjoying his favorite scenes.<\/p>\n<p>I believe in the power of the present over the future. If I\u2019m not being honest and kind now, I\u2019m unlikely to develop these qualities suddenly in my future. And if I can\u2019t learn to savor the moment in this present busyness, I\u2019m unlikely to do so in a less hectic retirement.<\/p>\n<p>Enough said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, I handed back Essay #1. Next week, they\u2019ll give me Essay #2. Two weeks later, they\u2019ll take the midterm. And the week after is Spring Break. Really? What is it about being busy that makes time speed up? Einstein had it partly right: Time not only is relative to the speed of light, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1643"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1683,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1643\/revisions\/1683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikebellah.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}