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Too Busy?

I recently watched a sermon online about "The Rhythm of Work and Rest." It had some very points and lessons - ones which we could probably all learn a little bit from. If you have 36 minutes, watch it. I assume, though, your first thought is "I don't have 3 minutes to watch some sermon, not to mention 36." Point taken - I'm certainly not here to preach, simply to share.

Anyway, if you don't have the time to watch it, here's a passage from the book The Rest of God: Restoring Your Soul by Restoring Sabbath, by Mark Buchanan which was read during the sermon. I like it. Even if you are not Christian, it can still be very meaningful.

One measure for whether or not you are rested enough (besides falling asleep in board meetings) is to ask yourself this: "How much do I care about the things I care about?" When we lose concern for people, both lost and saved, for the bride of Christ, for friendship, for truth, for beauty, for goodness; when we cease to laugh when our children laugh and instead yell at them to be quiet, when we cease to weep when our spouses weep and instead wish they did not get so emotional, when we hear of trouble among our neighbors and our first thought is we hope it does not involve us, when we stop caring about the things we care about, that is a signal we are too busy; we have let ourselves be consumed by things that feed the ego, but starve the soul.
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greyhound said…
Another good book on the same topic that touches on both sabbath and consumerism that drives our busy-ness is "Margins"
March 15, 2010 at 4:03 PM
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