We are so enveloped by a very fast-moving world today, a world of technology and people everywhere.
A strange world in which sometimes we spend more time connecting with people on the other side of the world (through Facebook or Twitter and other social media apps) than we do with our neighbors, or horror of horrors, perhaps more than we do with our family.
In such a world, we need to occasionally take a breather – to escape into nature or at least into a ‘prayer cupboard’.
At the very least, we need to find time to go for a walk or a run (perhaps without the music), or to do some star-gazing out on the porch, or find some way where we can still our soul and let it be surrounded by silence.