Wednesday, March 2

Crazy Busy

Be still, and know that I am God.
Psalm 46:10a

In his book, CrazyBusy: Overstretched, Overbooked and About to Snap, Edward M. Hallowell wrote about the moment he knew he had crossed the dark side from busy to crazy busy. It was when he lost his temper at a rotary dial phone while on vacation. His cell phone wouldn't work, and he just about went nuts waiting for the dial to return to start with every number. Then, calming down, he timed the process. The entire dialing process took all of eleven seconds. "What a fool I had become," he wrote. "I had become a man in a hurry even when I had no need to hurry."¹

Sometimes we're too busy to even notice we're busy. Our daily tasks weigh us down, and we unwillingly but unwittingly neglect what's most important--our inner nourishment and our family fellowship. Plan time for rest. Build some solitude into your routines. Establish plenty of time for spouse and family. Stop being crazy busy. Be still and remember Him who rules over all.

Be still, my soul: thy God doth undertake, to guide the future as He has the past.
Catharina A. von Schlegel

¹Alina Gugend, "Too Busy to Notice You’re Too Busy," The New York Times, March 31, 2007.

Read-Thru-the-Bible
Deuteronomy 23:1-26:19