Pastor Mike’s Blog

It’s been a busy week.  However, I’ve been contemplating the busyness.  A friend gave me a quote by Eugene Peterson:

“Busyness is the enemy of spirituality.  It is essentially laziness.  It is doing the easy thing instead of the hard thing.  It is filling our time with our own actions instead of paying attention to God’s actions.”

Guilty as charged.  For many years I practiced disciplined designed to keep me thinking of God throughout the day.  I’ve gotten away from them after moving into church work…after all, church work is God’s work, right?  Perhaps.  I know that the busyness is church work has turned me from thinking of God as much as I used to.  That needs to change.

Next time I will talk about a discipline I hope to begin this week.

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