Comments on: Demolishing the Culture of Busyness http://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/08/demolishing-the-culture-of-busyness.html Looking for the 1st century Church in 21st century America Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:37:15 +0000 hourly 1 By: Debhttp://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/08/demolishing-the-culture-of-busyness.html#comment-29268 Deb Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:12:30 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/08/demolishing-the-culture-of-busyness.html#comment-29268 I have just begun (well, halfway through in just a few days) a phenomenal book by Mark Tabb--Living With Less, The Upside of Downsizing. It's my pick for "Read of the Year." I have just begun (well, halfway through in just a few days) a phenomenal book by Mark Tabb–Living With Less, The Upside of Downsizing. It’s my pick for “Read of the Year.”

]]> By: Dave Blockhttp://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/08/demolishing-the-culture-of-busyness.html#comment-29260 Dave Block Mon, 13 Aug 2007 02:37:59 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/08/demolishing-the-culture-of-busyness.html#comment-29260 Dan, You're right on the money, as usual. "Revitalize and rebuild local economies that counter globalism's trend toward marginalization of communities and individuals" One great way for areas to work toward this is to adopt a local currency. I wrote an article about this for the magazine "In Business: Creating Sustainable Enterprises & Communities": http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/cc/localmoney.html Thanks for challenging us. Dan,

You’re right on the money, as usual.

“Revitalize and rebuild local economies that counter globalism’s trend toward marginalization of communities and individuals”

One great way for areas to work toward this is to adopt a local currency. I wrote an article about this for the magazine “In Business: Creating Sustainable Enterprises & Communities”:
http://www.ratical.org/many_wo.....money.html

Thanks for challenging us.

]]> By: Cathyhttp://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/08/demolishing-the-culture-of-busyness.html#comment-29241 Cathy Sat, 11 Aug 2007 13:48:18 +0000 http://ceruleansanctum.com/2007/08/demolishing-the-culture-of-busyness.html#comment-29241 Everthing in life is a choice. While we tend to think we are forced into "this" or "that", we are not.....Until one chooses to live with less, one won't..... Per the Scripture, the love of money is the root of all evil....greed for more is in the drivers seat of our lives and we are "asleep"....not noticing the scenery or ejoying the ride. Until one examines what one truly believes (and to discover this, one need only look at how one lives—why?—because one's way of thinking/believing leads to one's way of acting) nothing will change. One huge promoter of busyness, I believe, is one's church. I've had to step back from my church. I've been judged as unspiritual because I refuse to participate in all the programs and promotions of the church. And I've been told that which I "do" outside the church doesn't count. To that I say "poppycock"..... A simple ordinary life, lived daily where the Lord places one, doing the work given one is the most spiritual of all lives. A too busy life is a symptom of pride and/or greed. Either we believe we must do it or it won't get done....or we do it to get more, more, more.....I lived years thinking "if I don't do it who will?"...... never thinking for a moment that perhaps God didn't want "it" done. If there is no time to just be, when, then, does one pray?...meditate?...minister to those in his midst? Sadly, one doesn't. AA has a serenity prayer that "asks" God to help one change what can be changed, to accept what can't be changed, and the wisdom to know the difference. We'd do well to apply this to the problem of busyness and activity in our lives. Everthing in life is a choice. While we tend to think we are forced into “this” or “that”, we are not…..Until one chooses to live with less, one won’t…..

Per the Scripture, the love of money is the root of all evil….greed for more is in the drivers seat of our lives and we are “asleep”….not noticing the scenery or ejoying the ride.

Until one examines what one truly believes (and to discover this, one need only look at how one lives—why?—because one’s way of thinking/believing leads to one’s way of acting) nothing will change.

One huge promoter of busyness, I believe, is one’s church. I’ve had to step back from my church. I’ve been judged as unspiritual because I refuse to participate in all the programs and promotions of the church. And I’ve been told that which I “do” outside the church doesn’t count. To that I say “poppycock”…..

A simple ordinary life, lived daily where the Lord places one, doing the work given one is the most spiritual of all lives.

A too busy life is a symptom of pride and/or greed. Either we believe we must do it or it won’t get done….or we do it to get more, more, more…..I lived years thinking “if I don’t do it who will?”…… never thinking for a moment that perhaps God didn’t want “it” done.

If there is no time to just be, when, then, does one pray?…meditate?…minister to those in his midst? Sadly, one doesn’t.

AA has a serenity prayer that “asks” God to help one change what can be changed, to accept what can’t be changed, and the wisdom to know the difference. We’d do well to apply this to the problem of busyness and activity in our lives.

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