Busyness: Refusal to Rest in the Lord?

Heidi of God is Doing a New Thing wrote about busyness and her “refusal to rest in the Lord”:

“I don’t know how you do all you do!”Compliments like these cause me to evaluate if I unwittingly parade “all I do” around specifically so I can get accolades from others. I hope not!The truth is, I don’t do *any* of the many things I do well. (Even now, a part of me wants to list them all for you, so you can know what I mean. The other part of me–the suspicious part of me–thinks this would merely be a perverse attempt to win yet more accolades and encouragement…so I will restrain myself!)What if my busyness (something that is celebrated and respected in our culture) is just another way to keep from being in the present moment?What if God wants me to be still and know that he is God?Be still and know that I am not?…

Read all of  “Busyness – My Refusal to Rest in the Lord” HERE.“Yogurt” photo by “MOEVIEW”/Aaron Molina. Available on Flickr under a Creative Commons license.

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