Hello again everyone. Today I want to talk about rest. Before I go into this post, let me say I am not taking my own advice right now. It seems to me that with the technological advances, we are busier now than ever before. We might not work sun up to sun down behind a plow like they did 150 years ago but we are still very very busy.
I see it everywhere. When I was a kid, we played little league baseball and it ran for a couple of months (probably April to June) and if you made the All-Star team it ran a little longer. Now baseball is a year round sport. There's fall ball, winter ball, select teams, little league, etc. It's not just baseball, it's every sport. In the interest of competition the schedules are much more demanding. For the kids this is great but for parents it requires more and more running. You can drive over a hundred miles a day in Texas just running kids back and forth to practices, etc.
Before I get any ugly responses, let me say that I am a sports fan and I enjoy watching our kids. But you need to count the costs of all those activities. No, I don't mean the monetary costs although those are important. I am talking about the time costs. You see, while every one of these events on their own is really great, we have to be careful that the sum of the events doesn't run us down. What is the cost of time spent doing anything on the relationships that are important.
Last week, my wife and I were so busy running kids, working, taking care of the house, doing our gym work outs and the list goes on that I rarely saw her at all. When I did we were rushing off to another event! Now I am complaining about going, I just began to notice that I was getting tired. How did I know? Well, one night my wife and I were in the kitchen talking about the new toll road in Fort Worth. We were discussing how we seldom see the police on the other major roads but that they were definitely handing out extra tolls on that road every day. That turned into an argument and we were in agreement on the issue! Fortunately it wasn't a major argument and we only argued for about a minute before my wife said, "Why are we arguing about this?" and it stopped but it let me see that I was really getting tired.
So let me ask you this. Are you feeling yourself frustrated and tired a lot? If so, what type of toll is it taking on your friends and family around you? Are you short with people you love? Have you found yourself so busy that you don't have time to read your bible and be alone with God? If the answer is yes, then let me suggest that you take a minute and re-evaluate where you are spending your time. It is important to get things done but at what cost? Are there things you really need to cut out of your daily schedule? Don't try to keep up with what everyone else is doing. Run your race. You'll be glad you did.
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I see it everywhere. When I was a kid, we played little league baseball and it ran for a couple of months (probably April to June) and if you made the All-Star team it ran a little longer. Now baseball is a year round sport. There's fall ball, winter ball, select teams, little league, etc. It's not just baseball, it's every sport. In the interest of competition the schedules are much more demanding. For the kids this is great but for parents it requires more and more running. You can drive over a hundred miles a day in Texas just running kids back and forth to practices, etc.
Before I get any ugly responses, let me say that I am a sports fan and I enjoy watching our kids. But you need to count the costs of all those activities. No, I don't mean the monetary costs although those are important. I am talking about the time costs. You see, while every one of these events on their own is really great, we have to be careful that the sum of the events doesn't run us down. What is the cost of time spent doing anything on the relationships that are important.
Last week, my wife and I were so busy running kids, working, taking care of the house, doing our gym work outs and the list goes on that I rarely saw her at all. When I did we were rushing off to another event! Now I am complaining about going, I just began to notice that I was getting tired. How did I know? Well, one night my wife and I were in the kitchen talking about the new toll road in Fort Worth. We were discussing how we seldom see the police on the other major roads but that they were definitely handing out extra tolls on that road every day. That turned into an argument and we were in agreement on the issue! Fortunately it wasn't a major argument and we only argued for about a minute before my wife said, "Why are we arguing about this?" and it stopped but it let me see that I was really getting tired.
So let me ask you this. Are you feeling yourself frustrated and tired a lot? If so, what type of toll is it taking on your friends and family around you? Are you short with people you love? Have you found yourself so busy that you don't have time to read your bible and be alone with God? If the answer is yes, then let me suggest that you take a minute and re-evaluate where you are spending your time. It is important to get things done but at what cost? Are there things you really need to cut out of your daily schedule? Don't try to keep up with what everyone else is doing. Run your race. You'll be glad you did.
And that's another Opinion of the Minion
