How fast is your God

I read the below piece from one of Steve Taylors blogs

"I then told the story of being given a hard time by a friend in January; being told that as an evangelical I believed in a fast God. I was part of a system that gave altar calls for instant salvation, prayed for healing, and expected instant church growth, if not this week, then at least this month. Did I follow a fast God?
And what would it mean for me to follow a slow God; the God who took 80 years to prepare Moses for leadership; who took 40 years to get a people across a dessert; who took 30 years to prepare a Messiah ministry; who gave Paul 3 years for integration? Where is the slow God in my spiritual formation?"

I like this piece. I have heard (and probably said myself) pastors say things like "I'll give these people 3 years to straighten out or I'm outta here" and that kinda turns my stomach. Like, when you say that, who are you picturing? Are you thinking about the five-year-old... they better get their act together. Are you thinking about the woman who was raped and hasn't told anybody and struggles to get through each day, waiting for Sunday so she can have a moment of peace? Are you thinking about... well, you get the idea.

Personally, my God has slowed down quite a bit over the past couple of years. But maybe it's still not slow enough. Until a couple of years ago I "forced myself" to read the Bible through in a year every year - because I thought I had to. I finally gave it up for 2 years. Just this year I started reading in much smaller chunks each day. And it's amazing how much more meaningful it is to me; how much more God is speaking to me through it.

Even the way I react to crisis events or problems has slowed down. Understanding that I don't need to solve everything; that I can't solve everything; that things don't need to be "fixed" right away; that sometimes I shouldn't try to solve things.

A lot of applications for this. Maybe I'm just getting old... or finally starting to grow up. Just some thoughts.