I don’t have much more to say about busyness than I wrote in this article. But I’ll summarize what I thought were the article’s best points:
- Don’t confuse work with activity. Work is not a matter of energy expended, it is a matter of tasks accomplished.
- Learn to see the slothfulness in misguided zeal; the exhaustion you experience from getting exercised over some big thing not in your sphere of influence may feel like work, but it accomplishes little or nothing—and nobody cares if you do a good job of it or not.
- Don’t think that your vicarious involvement in something big—evangelizing the world, re-Christianizing the United States Government, saving Reformdom from a heresy—is more important than your actual involvement in something smaller—raising your children, helping a friend.
- Don’t yearn for big important tasks that God didn’t give to you while neglecting the small obvious ones that He did.
