Recently I read a very challenging article titled “Ruthlessly Eliminate Hurry.”  It talks about how “one of the great illusions of our day is that hurry will buy us more time.”  I am a victim of this illusion…  There are so many times where I might just rush through my day from appointment to appointment without ever stopping to just take a breath.  So I start asking myself… Am I really being more productive by just rushing from one thing to the next?  Could it be more beneficial for me to implement rest into my day no matter how many things I have to get done?

In the article it said that, “Robert Banks, author of All the Business of Life, notes that while our society is rich in things, we are extremely poor in time.  In fact, never before in human history has a society been so things-rich and so time-poor.”  We try to get more done but end up spreading ourselves so thin leaving no time to spare.  We have turned into our own Jack Bauer where we are trying to save the world in 24 hours, commercial breaks included.  And who has ever even seen that guy eat?  But a lot of the time we can be so busy we don’t even have time to eat, all we can do is grab a coffee to go.

In Mark 6:31, Mark says “for many were coming and going, and they had no leisure even to eat,” so even the disciples struggled with having too much hurry in their life.  But sometimes we just need someone to remind us to stop and relax if you read just before that verse, Mark states, “Come away by yourselves to a desolate place and rest a while.”

For most of us we can continue our lives having a lot on our plate, running from class to class, and rushing through our lives.  But I want to challenge you to start now, because trying to eliminate hurry in our life isn’t a new hot topic; people have always been trying to get it out of their lives.  Spend some time: praying, listening to music, reading a Psalm, or just day dreaming!  Take some time this weekend to step outside of your busy life and rest for a while, you deserve it.  I know I will, dibs on Madonna Mountain.