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Notes

In today’s America, complaining about being busy and working all the time is so commonplace most of us do it without thinking. If someone asks “How are you?” we no longer say “Fine” or “I’m well, thank you.” We often simply reply “Busy!”

Of course, everyone is still busy — worse than busy, exhausted, too wiped at the end of the day to do more than stress-eat, binge-watch and doomscroll — but no one’s calling it anything other than what it is anymore: an endless, frantic hamster wheel for survival.

We can try to sustain living at breakneck speed but sooner or later, physically, mentally and/or emotionally we fall apart. Our bodies – and minds – weren’t meant to endure continual stress. Blood pressure spikes – and eventually remains at an elevated level, hearts wear out, we become irritable and easily angered, and we get upset – sometimes to the point of weeping - from frustration and exhaustion.

Being hurried robs us of the ‘good life’ we expected by damaging our bodies, our souls and our relationships!

Adulting often leaves us exhausted and stressed-out

We don’t need more

How do we get off the hamster wheel of hurry?

The difference:

We’re so preoccupied with preparing for the next 

…a woman named Martha welcomed him (Jesus) as a guest. She had a sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to what he said. 

But Martha was distracted with all the preparations she had to make, so she came up to him and said, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister has left me to do all the work alone? Tell her to help me.” 

Martha, you are worried and troubled about many things, but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the best part; it will not be taken away from her.

But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth.

Jesus teaches that hurried hinders the life we’re meant for

Unhurried Practices:

Hurry promises us more but at the cost of missing moments that matter