Have you ever watched a clip of time-lapse photography as a flower blooms, a sun rises and sets, or inhabitants of a city swarm, frenzied, like busy ants in a colony? It takes only a few seconds to see the painstaking, micro-movements of activity, when in fact the process took hours, or days, to unfold. Sometimes the blessings of our lives occur so subtly, so gradually, that we fail to acknowledge them until after-the-fact, when we are able to view the whole picture from start to finish.

Some of you are experiencing an extremely slowed down pace right now, and it is an uncomfortable, even painful switch... (Continued)