The Discerning Leader Podcast Embracing Inefficiency (Slowness) | An Advent Journey of Attentiveness
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Dec 30, 2025 As the new year approaches, embracing slowness is highlighted as a path to deeper soul formation. The hosts discuss five core practices—simplicity, spaciousness, silence, solitude, and slowness—to foster spiritual attentiveness. They illustrate the cost of rushing, sharing poignant personal stories of how accidents serve as wake-up calls. Listeners are encouraged to adopt patience and align their pace with divine timing, while a year-end examen serves as a reflective tool for entering 2026 mindfully.
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Slow Pace Enables Spiritual Formation
- Slowing down allows us to become more like God by making space for character growth and deeper formation.
- Discernment begins with noticing God, which requires a slower, attentive pace.
Rushing Led To Blue Tape And Impatience
- Matt sped up moving projects and started injuring himself, ending up wrapping fingers with painter's tape instead of bandages.
- He noticed speeding up made him impatient and less present with others during the rush.
Rushing Caused Harm And Forced Slowdown
- Steve recounted falling in Germany and other travel accidents from rushing, which forced prolonged recovery and care from others.
- Those detours exposed the cost of not building room for flat tires in our plans.
