Years ago I asked what was keeping me from finding and doing what it was I was supposed to be doing.<\/p>\n
What I got back was one word: Distractions.<\/p>\n
Distractions!<\/p>\n
How I recognize that. They are those pesky or even “necessary” things that come into my life, my days, my hours, and claim manifest destiny.<\/p>\n
They walk in without knocking, sit down in front of me and say, “Well, I’m here. I’m not going away. Deal with me.”<\/p>\n
And of course I don’t want to be impolite, and I would like to be able to move on, so I tell myself I’d better handle just this one.<\/p>\n
Meantime, my invited guest, the one I wanted to spend time with, waits.<\/p>\n
Okay, she (or him, or it) knows she’s the one I’m trying to get back to . . . when all these other random guests stop coming. But they keep coming!<\/p>\n
By the end of the day my journal, if I kept a journal of such, is full of all the things I handled. People would be impressed, if they knew, how many things I do, and many at the same time. I have a very busy life.<\/p>\n
But is it busy with the right things?<\/p>\n
I read this morning how at the beginning of Jesus’s public ministry, when people were almost barging down the door to hear what he had to say, to get healed, or delivered, the next morning before dawn he went off to be alone. They couldn’t find him. He was out seeking guidance.<\/p>\n
Following that, he left the area. And that at the height of great success!<\/p>\n
There it is: Even good things can become a distraction from best things.<\/p>\n
Our days are so full we wonder why they’re so brief. But what is the one thing we should be doing?<\/p>\n
Stop and ask.<\/p>\n
Then bar the door.<\/p>\n
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\nMark 1:35-39<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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