The Pause App

August 31, 2024 | My Jottings

Hello friends. I thought I would share a little something with you that I absolutely love. It’s called The Pause App, and is available for iPhones or Android phones. It’s put out by Wild at Heart Ministries, and John and Stasi Eldredge.

I love why they built this app — it’s for people who struggle to slow down to truly connect with God. The app has what they call one minute pauses, and it has three minute pauses and longer pauses too. There are different focuses you can check out. I am in the middle of the series on resilience and love it.

I have two notifications set on my iPhone, one in the mid-morning and one in the mid-afternoon, to remind me to take a one minute pause, or sometimes a three minute pause, to breathe deeply, turn my heart and mind to God, and ask Him to fill me and help me again.

I realize we don’t need an app on our phones to help us do this, but I have found this one so helpful. Soothing, hopeful, powerful, peaceful, recalibrating.

I am very fond of two apps on my phone (the other one being Hallow), and this is one. I recommend it to you. (There are other apps called Pause, so make sure you use the one that looks like the one at left.) Download it, set up a notification or two, and use it for at least a month. There have been many times I’ve ignored the notifications because I’m in the middle of something, and that’s okay. Just use it as often as you can, and see what you think.

I think it would be fantastic for young people too. It’s an antidote to anxiety, it helps us surrender ourselves to Jesus again and again, and prompts us to remember we are in His presence, loved and cared for by Him more than we can imagine, and we do not have to live at the pace the world wants us to.

Let me know if you try it.

Blessings,