When I’m in the car, I like to listen to country radio.  It’s not all good, but it seems to have a higher percentage of edifying songs than any other station.  (It also happens to be the most local station, so the advertisements, etc. are for the local businesses, not the closest big city, etc.)  Yesterday, as I was coming back from dropping my kids off for a practice, I heard one that’s a classic example of those make-you-think-about-the-important-things songs: “Five More Minutes,” by Scott McCreery.

Five More Minutes

The verses describe different occasions in life when we wish things could last a little longer, highlighting (among other things) how those occasions shift throughout the years as we mature.  The chorus includes this clip:

Wish I had me a Pause button
Moments like those Lord knows I’d hit it
And give myself five more minutes

It got me thinking…of course we don’t have a pause button in the sense he’s talking about.  We can’t make those moments stretch out any longer.  But might we be able to use a “pause button,” of sorts, in the sense of capturing a freeze-frame?  Stopping briefly to look more closely at a single moment instead of letting it just roll past?

What Would You Pause?

What moments from the past 24-48 hours would you pause?  What moments are worth capturing as a snapshot?  Can you maybe take a few minutes to write out a little description of what’s on your mental screen of those pause-worthy moments — so you can come back to them later?  So you can savor them and be reminded of the good things?  (I’m challenging myself here, too!)

Five More Minutes — What Would YOU Pause? is a post from: Titus 2 Homemaker

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