At a conference last Saturday on faith, business, and technology, two older men talked about these days walking slowly with their wives. One meant it literally, as his wife has some mobility issues. The other meant it metaphorically, slowing down from a hectic professional pace. You could sense in both an expression of affection, of deepening relationship.
This insight popped up: Jesus walking slowly with us. He who could zap his way across the cosmos in the twinkling of an eye walks with us, and at our pace! And then this: Immanuel, God with us. (Matt 1:23)