Go! Go! Go!
Theme of the Week: Curse or Gift?
Craig Dunham
Monday, June 13, 2005
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Key Bible Verse: Oh, how I wish I had wings like a dove; then I would fly away and rest! (Psalm 55:6). Bonus Reading: Mark 3:20-21; 6:31-32
My good friend Ken once got pneumonia from staying up too late, getting up too early, teaching all day, writing and directing a musical all evening, and generally forgetting that he was human. Ken told me later that his sickness was the best thing that could have happened to him because he needed and wanted a break but didn't know how to schedule one for himself. God did it for him, with a week-long stay in the hospital, complete with hospital food. Now he's better at slowing down every now and then, but he still has a way to go. So do the rest of us.
Because so many things seem more urgent than they really are, it's difficult to make the choice to read, write, and reflect—three keys to slowing down the pace of our lives. Our culture promotes the idea of working like crazy and then taking a short but intense vacation (which calls for another vacation we seldom get to take).
If those of us in our twenties do manage to slow down, work hard but less, pace ourselves, and make time for other things, we may not be received too well by those above us who "paid their dues" to the same exhausting system.
—Craig Dunham in TwentySomeone
My Response: When in my life am I overloaded?
Adapted from TwentySomeone (WaterBrook, 2003) by permission.
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