The world is a
busy place these days. The churches are
busy places these days. I am not busy
these days, mostly because of a body that can’t be running around doing this
and that. So I watch and remember my
days of working and ministering to others.
There was always
so much to do, so many needs to be met, so many people who needed only moments
of time. But those moments mounted in
number and I remember reaching the point of exhaustion more than once.
As I sit and watch
others running around at top speed, developing multitudes of new programs to
meet all of the needs of folks around them, I have to wonder, is keeping busy
keeping others busy the tact that Jesus had in mind for His Church. What I see and hear is a lot of busy people
who use that busyness to curb the loneliness they feel inside. Keeping people busy, having programs that
meet every conceivable need is a tact the world sails on. Always changing, always progressing, always
on the move resulting in people who have no time to sit still and reflect on
anything meaningful or soulful; this can’t be what God had in mind for His
people. One look at nature would confirm
that He had more than being busy in mind for all of His creation.
In today’s world
not being busy equates into not being useful.
That is a lie and it is a lie that God’s people should be exposing, not
engaged in. Being useful without being
busy is the lesson my trees outside my window teach me as we sit in silence and
stillness each other’s company and simply BE with one another.
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