Hurry!!!

Too Much to Do!

 Does anyone else feel it?  The pressure of this season?!  I do.  I don’t know how to get it all done and I find myself too often in a hurry, trying to do two things at once and then doing a poor job of both of them.

 The simple essence of hurry is this:  Too much to do! The good of avoiding hurry is not just pleasure, but to enable us to calmly and effectively do the things that are truly important with strength and joy.  I once heard Dallas Willard say, “We must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from our lives.  It is an enemy of the spiritual life.”

 We don’t want to “skim” our lives.  We want to live them.

In order to not live in a state of “hurry” we must try not to live in a state of urgency.

 Here are some suggestions I heard from Dallas Willard:

To get the urgent off of our backs we must:

1. Form a clear intention to live without hurry.  Try one day.

2. Cultivate a mental picture of your place in the world before God:  What is God doing and where do you fit in?  Write it down.

On the basis of that:

3.  Begin to eliminate things you “have” to do. (Choose to do less better.)

 Examples I could think of include not answering some e-mails and facebook.  Even not reading all of the e-mails may be in order.  (I am actually not even on Facebook.  I am holding out as long as I can!)

 Don’t be afraid of doing nothing.

That is when we reflect on what is really important.

Please join me as I try to do less.

Blessings,

Thora