One of the mantras of our modern world is DO more, BE more, HAVE more which can lead us to live a hurried life. In this sermon, George talked about how hurry is incompatible with the love, joy, and peace that are right at the center of Jesus’ vision of life.

God walks “slowly” because he is love. If he is not love he would have gone much faster. Love has its speed. It is an inner speed. It is a spiritual speed. It is a different kind of speed from the technological speed to which we are accustomed. It is “slow” yet it is lord over all other speeds since it is the speed of love.

-Kosuke Koyama, Japanese theologian