What Matters Most?

Good Morning! Hurry sickness can corrupt almost every area of our lives,...including the people we care most about. When we are so busy that it's hurry, hurry, hurry all the time, we often hurt and disappoint those we love, especially our family,...by putting our to-do lists above their needs. By neglecting to spend quality time with them,...by being so wrapped up in what we are doing that we aren't sensitive enough to what's happening in their lives. The pursuits that keep us so busy might be worthwhile, volunteering at church, helping our neighbors, or being active in a ministry. Even if our motives for getting involved in all the busyness are good, sometimes we can become so wrapped up in the doing, that we make others suffer from our hurry sickness.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.—Proverbs 3:5-6 (NIV)

This hurry sickness, often sneaks up on us. We are scurrying along focused on all we've committed to do,...getting busier and busier. Then something is said or done in our family that shocks us into realizing that something is wrong. Without meaning to, we have allowed all these good pursuits to interfere with our relationship with God,...and with those we care about the most. It's time to ask our family how they feel. It's time to seek God's point of view,...and the guidance of His Holy spirit. It's time to get some of the hurry out of our life, and focus on what truly matters the most.

When our activities, no matter how worthwhile they seem, begin to have negative effects on our home, family and friends,...it's time to reevaluate them.

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Father God, none of us mean for this to happen, we just keep getting involved, and weighed down, with one activity after another. We wanted to do good, but we realize now that we just got so focused on what we wanted to do,...that we took my focus off You, and our family. Help us to find our way back to doing things Your way. In Jesus name, Amen.

"We live with good intentions of spending time with God, and turning our heart toward Him only to find at the end of the day that's the one thing we never got around to."