"If I were your enemy, I'd make everything seem urgent, as if it's all yours to handle. I'd bog down your calendar with so many expectations you couldn't tell the difference between what's important and what's not. Going and doing, guilty for never saying no, trying to control it all, but just being controlled by it all instead ..." I may have mentioned this quote before, but it's ingrained in my head because this has, at times, been MY life! “Hurry is not of the Devil; it is the Devil.” ~ Carl Jung. You may have had similar thoughts about scurrying here and there, never enough time, too much to do for one 24-hour period. Jung points out this is not just a condition of life today, it has a real source, an ill-intentioned power bent on draining our joy and hope by stacking up so much pressure in one day that it's impossible to win. I hesitate to say this (because eyes-roll), but it's really true: In order to squash the pressure of never having enough time WE MUST TAKE TIME! Here Priscilla takes up an old concept that's SO worth implementing. The tradition is called: the Sabbath. Sabbath is a day of rest. A stopping of the going. An end of pressure for one 24-hour period each week when you unwind, de-stress, rest and re-evaluate life, connect with loved ones, your goals, whatever may need your time. It's a period for family and self. Read. Hobby. Sleep. Whatever! It's ok. Priscilla writes: "Why does this concept of stopping, resting, shutting off, stepping away, pulling back, taking a deep breath--the biblical command of Sabbath--why is it so hard..." "Because to some degree, we're slaves just as they [the Israelites] were. The thought of deliberately choosing a time of rest ... around our full slate of activities feels almost unthinkable--because ... [we] still think the way a slave thinks..." OUCH! One final word from this chapter, "When our lives are packed to the brim with things that squeeze God to the periphery, its a sure sign we've replaced our devotion to God with a love for something else." I'm guilty. Are you? Time for Sabbath. Time for re-ordering priorities. Time to evaluate what really matters? Time to TAKE BACK CONTROL!
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