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.

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.