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Corrie ten boom once said that if the devil can’t make you sin, he’ll make you busy.
Hurry and love are incompatible. Oil and water. They simply do not mix.
If there’s a secret to happiness, it’s simple - presence to the moment. The more present we aCorrie ten boom once said that if the devil can’t make you sin, he’ll make you busy.
Hurry and love are incompatible. Oil and water. They simply do not mix.
If there’s a secret to happiness, it’s simple - presence to the moment. The more present we are to the now, the more joy we tap into.
In 1879 you has Edison and the light bulb, which made it possible to stay up past sunset. Before Edison the avg person slept 11 hours a night. Now in America, the median number is 7.
Now, busyness is a sign of wealth.
In 2000, before the digital revolution, the attention span was 12 seconds. Now it’s 8.
What is all this distraction, addiction and pace of life doing to our souls?
Hurry is a form of violence on the soul.
Physiologists tell us anxiety is often the canary in the coal mine, our souls way of telling us something is deeply wrong and we need to fix it, fast.
Hurry kills relationships. Love takes time. Hurry doesn’t have it.
Because what you give your attention to is the person you become. 💚💚💚
In the end, your life is no more than the sim of what you gave your attention to.
There is, in other words, a danger that when you are on your deathbed, you will look back and realize that you wasted your one chance at living. Instead of spending your life pursing something genuinely valuable, you squandered it because you allowed yourself to be distracted by the various baubles life has to offer.
Comparison eats away at our joy. There will always be somebody better at something than you. Pg 66
⭐️ We find gods will for our lives in our limitations
The average American spends 705 hours per year on social media.
If you want to experience the life of Jesus, you have to adopt the lifestyle of Jesus.
Jesus made sure to inject a healthy dose of margin into his life. It’s been said that margin is “the space between our loads and our limits”.
More than once we read stories about Jesus sleeping in and the disciples having to wake him up.
Eremos - desert - deserted place
Jesus came out of the wilderness with all sorts of clarity about his identity and calling. He was grounded.
Could it be that we’re using external noise to drown out the internal noise?
Solitude is where many of us feel connection to god.
The word sabbath comes to us from the Hebrew Shabbat. The word literally means to stop 🛑
Zero correlation between hurry and productivity. In fact, once you work a certain number of hours in a week, your productivity plummets. 50 hours.
On sabbath all we do is rest and worship.
.7% of people contribute to 45.6% of wealth. $1M or higher. Pg 167
You cannot serve both god and money.
Healthy eye 👁 1 focused and living with a high degree of intentionally in life 2 you were generous to the poor
Minimalism Anything that does not add value to my life Anything that does not spark joy in my life
Page 202 - if you make $25,000 a year or more, you’re in the top 10 percent of the worlds wealth. If you make $34,000 a year or more, you are in the top 1 percent.
Page 205
2. Before I buy this, ask yourself, by buying this, am I oppressing the poor or harming the earth?
Polyester will live in a landfill - forever - page 207
What would Jesus do if he were me? If he had my gender, my career, my income, my relationship status? What would that look like?
Discontentment: the nagging feeling of always wanting more. Not just more stuff, but more life.
Most experts recommend you don’t check your mail more than twice a day. At the beginning and near the end of your workday.
Breathe In love, breathe out the anger Breathe in joy, breathe out the sadness and pain Breathe in peace, breathe out anxiety and uncertainty of tomorrow Breathe in patience, breathe out the hurry of my life...more
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