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1...a 3 day series on HOW TO LESSEN ANXIETY.
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LEISURE,
A BLESSING OR A CURSE?
Mark 8:36
What
good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forget his soul?
Bottom line, this is what leisure really starts to
be all about - our choices of what is important.
In
rushing from one critical pillar to the next significant post are we losing
sight of what is really important?
Doing a good job of living and being is
important but should we spend 24 hours a day over-extending ourselves to be a
super preacher, a super parent, a super businessperson?
To do a super,
duper, perfected perfection job with each and everyone of the seven job changes
the average American has in a lifetime?
And, if not careful, lose ones health in
the process? To do our best?
Certainly no sin in that, a rather
necessary part of our personality, hopefully.
But again, it is the question of how much is too much and how little is
too little.
There
are certain basic truths that if not learned and rightly applied can only be
the cause of inner turmoil and ongoing trouble.
One of these truths is, we are not just what we do, but how well we
learn to do it without having it undo us.
While we are
struggling with being the best at our labors, whatever they are, and finding
leisure, whatever it is, it is important to remember that God already values us
as human beings.
If we do not believe this, both work and
play become prisons. And being unsatisfied with who we are in
either dimension makes anything and everything that happens, aimed at down
hill.
Would you find
peace in your work or play? Then find a personal Eden: one you can go to that overlooks a
mountain or a stream, or one that watches crashing waves, or, as in my case, a
back porch where the setting sun turns everything to Kodachrome.
I’ve carried a book there often to read and then never read the
book. Just sat quietly and watched the
turn of the leaves in a soft evening breeze and listened carefully to the song
of one bird to the other. But if some
such kind of paradise is not possible, strive to find a calm and restful place
within yourself.
It is a must, this trying to find the
monk that dwells within and then just sit quietly, shut up and listen to that
voice of God.
You most likely know the prayer of St.
Francis of Assisi,
probably heard it dozens of times, but have you ever caught the spirit of it as
a call to leisure? “Lord, grant me the
courage to change what needs to be changed, the serenity to accept what cannot
be changed, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
Until you can
make this thought your own, you will never experience true leisure for you will
be obsessed with success at any cost.
And then arrogant when you win and terribly
depressed when you don’t. Leisure can
come only when you do your best and having done your best, sit back and learn
from both victory and defeat.
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Here Comes Summer (July 2012)
·
Spring
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·
Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow (April 2012)
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Wayward and Windy (April 2012)
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