{"id":10147,"date":"2022-05-09T17:28:29","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T22:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/?p=10147"},"modified":"2026-03-28T07:39:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T12:39:26","slug":"how-purposeful-pausing-renews-energy-and-piles-up-peace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/how-purposeful-pausing-renews-energy-and-piles-up-peace\/","title":{"rendered":"How purposeful pausing renews energy and piles up peace"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Pausing for vacation has a good vibe for peace of mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Jack-and-Steve-biking-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Pausing adds to success\" class=\"wp-image-10152\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Jack-and-Steve-biking-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Jack-and-Steve-biking-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Jack-and-Steve-biking-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Jack-and-Steve-biking.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">Pausing for vacation refreshes all kinds of relationships\/Jack and Steve Blaising<\/mark><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Stepping away has three treasures for you, your family and your community at large.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"h-treasure-1-pausing-leads-to-rich-time-with-others\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">Treasure 1:<mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-color\"><\/mark> Pausing leads to rich time with others<\/mark><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Family and business life move so fast these days, we can&#8217;t see tension.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We feel it, but we can&#8217;t . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>see it<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>relieve it<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>call it out<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Even when there&#8217;s no crisis, we need a break.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Folks we see and work with everyday need a break from us too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, I thought a spring trip to the Texas Hill Country would delight with wildflowers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Bluebonnets-Highway-16-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"Purposeful pausing escapes rut\" class=\"wp-image-14548\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Bluebonnets-Highway-16-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Bluebonnets-Highway-16-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/Bluebonnets-Highway-16.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">Texas wildflowers on Highway 16 to Fredericksburg\/Steve Blaising<\/mark><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Googling the best places to stay in Fredericksburg, I found the Rose Hill Retreat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Never seen a bed and breakfast like this with . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>spacious suites and porches<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>privacy with elegant accommodations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>. . . all perched on a magnificent hilltop draped by pastureland and oak trees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Rose-Hill-Retreat-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Pausing Retreat in Fredericksburg\" class=\"wp-image-10158\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Rose-Hill-Retreat-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Rose-Hill-Retreat-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Rose-Hill-Retreat-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Rose-Hill-Retreat.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">Rose Hill Retreat in Fredericksburg, TX\/Photo by Jack Blaising<\/mark><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Like kids who go to &#8216;time-out&#8217; because their spirit is out of whack, adults need &#8216;time-out.&#8217;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not just for us, but for all of our relationships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How better we are to step away and evaluate our . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>thoughts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>feelings<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>behavior<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>direction<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8230;with purposeful pausing?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"h-treasure-2-pausing-leads-to-healthy-rhythm\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">Treasure 2: Pausing leads to healthy rhythm<\/mark><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Recently, I came across a baffling line by Robert Louis Stevenson, &#8220;Extreme busyness, whether at school, kirk or market, is a symptom of deficient vitality.&#8221;  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Really?  Most folks think that busyness is a sign of vitality.  Maybe Stevenson meant to say &#8220;abundant&#8221; instead of &#8220;deficient.&#8221;  But, he goes on to say, &#8220;It is no good speaking to such folk; they <em>can not<\/em> be idle, their nature is not generous enough.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Is it possible that busyness is a sign of spiritual vacuum?  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An old Chinese proverb says, &#8220;When there is no time for quiet, there is no time for the soul to grow.  The man who walks through a countryside sees much more than the man who runs.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Busyness hurts your community too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Spouse <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Children<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Co-workers<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Faith group<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Practicing solitude adds margin to everyone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you eat, play, read and relax in a new setting, your soul is reborn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Landscapes cease to be a blur and become a pastoral scene of color, dimension and depth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Jack-and-coffee-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10179 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Jack-and-coffee-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Jack-and-coffee-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Jack-and-coffee.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Tomorrow&#8221; replaces &#8220;now.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Putting things off on purpose dispels stress from imagined importance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">&#8220;Later&#8221; allows the subconscious mind to find gift-wrapped answers the next day or next week or maybe next month.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>God made us to be wholesome for our communities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He calls us to . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>lift<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>love<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>heal<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>harmonize<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>. . . the folks we live and work with.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Society is commonly too cheap. We meet at very short intervals, not having had time to acquire any new value for each other.&#8221;<br>\u2014 Henry David Thoreau, <em>Walden; or Life in the Woods (1854)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\" id=\"h-treasure-3-fresh-encounter-with-the-creator\"><strong><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-black-color\">Treasure 3:  Fresh encounter with the Creator<\/mark><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>On this trip to Fredericksburg, I drove to nearby Comfort, TX, where I had a spiritual encounter at an outdoor chapel as a youngster (age 11).  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I firmly believe that anyone . . .<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>young or old<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>poor or rich<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>foolish or wise<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>. . . can hear God&#8217;s voice if they listen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cCome to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light.\u201d<br>\u2014 Mat 11:28-30<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My encounter 56 years ago was distinct.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It happened after hearing and believing these words.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c&#8217;Let anyone who is thirsty come to me and drink. Whoever believes in me, as Scripture has said, rivers of living water will flow from within them.&#8217; By this he meant the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were later to receive.&#8221;<br>\u2014 John 7:37-39<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week I visited that chapel in Comfort pausing to relish the beginnings of my faith 56 years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Took my breath away as I drove up the hill and saw the steeple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"913\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Chapel-913x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10256 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Chapel-913x1024.jpg 913w, https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Chapel-268x300.jpg 268w, https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Chapel-768x861.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Chapel.jpg 981w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 913px) 100vw, 913px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">It&#8217;s not that this little chapel is a big deal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">But, it was the place I heard God&#8217;s voice and responded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">What a <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/enduring-answer-for-your-greatest-pain-today\/\">lifetime game-changer<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Purposeful pausing can uncover fresh reminders that you are not alone in this world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Who or what refreshes your soul?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stories like this are part of the reflections I write about life, resilience, and human turning points explored on my <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.steveblaising.com\/content\/about-stephen-blaising\/\"><strong>About Stephen Blaising<\/strong><\/a> page.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pausing for vacation has a good vibe for peace of mind. 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