The Lord can send all His best graces our way. But when we’re too busy for God, we’re no longer where we’re supposed to be.

Life plays subtle tricks on us: enticing us with a good promotion, an exciting new project, keeping us busy with work and hobbies, and even tempting us with limitless rest and relaxation. There’s nothing inherently bad about all of these, of course, until the blessing steals our hearts away from the Bless-er.

“For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world...