Slow Me Down Lord

Slow me down, Lord!

Ease the pounding of my heart

By the quieting of my mind.

Steady my harried pace

With a vision of the eternal reach of time...

Help me know

The magical restoring power of sleep.

Teach me the art

Of taking minute vacations of slowing down to look at a flower;

To chat with an old friend or to make a new one...

Remind me each day

That the race is not always to the swift...

Slow me down, Lord,

And inspire me to send my roots deep

Into the soil of life's enduring values...

-Wilfred A. Peterson