Life has become a flywheel.  In all our efforts to be efficient and to do more, we’ve got that sucker spinning pretty good.  As Powell states above, busyness flows from our hearts.  So, we need to ask, Who or what would lead us to such hurriedness?

There are those things that we have been called to do–and everything else.  The “everything else” is optional.  That allows us to thrive as we slow down.

We are simply too hurried.  Jesus wasn’t.  We don’t have to be.

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