Sometimes it seems that with every change life gets faster and faster. When something new comes along, we have to work to catch up with it. I got a new journal and now there is more for me to read. I heard of a new website from my grandson which opens up the whole world in new ways. More to do. To do it I have to do everything faster.

But, as the coming new year invites me to evaluate my life, I wonder if there might be more wisdom in slowing down than in speeding up. Milan Kundera in his book Immorality writes about the difference between highways and roads. Highways are for getting from one point to another. Roads are for walking and exploring what is along the way. He says that our lives have become highways. When that happened "[t]ime became a mere obstacle to life, an obstacle that had to be overcome by ever greater speed."

As I begin this new year, I want to live time, not race through it. I want to be where I am and not where I think I am going. I think when I slow down and wander the back-roads of the soul, I will discover that life is what I experience now, not something that I am waiting to happen.