We only get two billion heartbeats. We can hummingbird them, or tortoise them. The faster we zoom, the more our souls—our engines—burn. That doesn't always have to be a terrible thing. But it does matter.

 

Links: 

• Here's a link to Marjorie J. Thompson’s Soul Feast: An Invitation to the Christian Spiritual Life
• And here's a link to One Long River of Song by Brian Doyle.
• I announced my new book and cover a few weeks agoon Instagram. So excited to share it with you!
• This reflection and practice were also published this week in The Slow Way Newsletter.
• Find a transcript of this episode here. 
• Find Micha's website and sign up for her weekly newsletter here
• Find Micha on Instagram
• Find Micha on Threads. 
• Micha's other (award winning!) podcast, The Lucky Few, is all about Down syndrome advocacy. She cohosts it with Heather Avis and Mercedes Lara. 

Preorder my new book Blessed Are The Rest of Us: How Limits and Longing Make Us Whole at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, and available everywhere books are sold.