My client is not in a hurry

Photo credit Rhonda Curry

At this time of year, the Western World slows down, pauses for the Christmas Season.

We step off our hamster wheel of life and work, of things to do, deadlines to meet etc.

In that world, has anybody ever used the line “my client is not in a hurry”? If so, it is very rare, yet these words, and the man who said them, have much to teach us.

I love visiting houses of worship, there is so much power both in the focussed devotion given to these buildings and within them from those visiting them to focus on their own devotion to their faith.

In 2011 I visited Sagrada Familia. In her own visit, as she blogged about including the photo above, Rhonda Curry put the impact of the interior in exquisite words:

“The interior of the basilica is, in a word, transportive. I think a child would be best to describe its wonder. To me it felt as if all the constructs of what we know, what we think we know, what we hope for, and what is more beautiful than we even know how to hope for all came together in an emotional, physical and spiritual rush of light and love.”

Sagrada Familia is, to me, quite simply the greatest human-made building I have ever visited. The exterior is beyond words, yet the interior truly left me speechless and even…