Why does Busy-ness most
often win?
Monday, January 12, 2015
Jeff Lampl
Jeff Lampl
“Remain
in me, and I will remain in you. For a branch cannot produce fruit
if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me.”
John 15:4 (NLT)
if it is severed from the vine, and you cannot be fruitful unless you remain in me.”
John 15:4 (NLT)
I
am busy because I am vain.
I want to appear important.
Significant.
What better way than to be busy?
The incredible hours, the crowded schedule, and the heavy demands
of my time are proof to myself – and to all who will notice – that I
am important.
If I go into a doctor’s office and find there’s no one
waiting, and I see through a half-open door the doctor reading a book, I
wonder if he’s any good. . . .
Such
experiences affect me.
I live in a society in which crowded schedules and harassed
conditions are evidence of importance, so I develop a crowded schedule
and harassed conditions.
When others notice, they acknowledge my significance, and my
vanity is fed.
I am busy because I am lazy. I indolently let others decide what I will do instead of resolutely deciding myself. It was a favorite theme of C.S. Lewis that only lazy people work hard. By lazily abdicating the essential work of deciding and directing, establishing values and setting goals, other people do it for us.
I am busy because I am lazy. I indolently let others decide what I will do instead of resolutely deciding myself. It was a favorite theme of C.S. Lewis that only lazy people work hard. By lazily abdicating the essential work of deciding and directing, establishing values and setting goals, other people do it for us.
*Excerpted
from “Day by Day”
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