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A thought by John Mark Comer from his book, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry (p. 55). The Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) Let’s see what John says. He says, “Something deeper. Usually that we’re running away from something—father wounds, childhood trauma, last names, deep insecurity or deficits of self-worth, fear of failure, pathological inability to accept the limitations of our humanity, or simply boredom with the mundanity of middle life. “Or we’re running to something—promotions or purchases or experiences or stamps on our passports or the next high—searching in vain for something no earthly experience has on offer: a sense of self-worth and love and acceptance. In the meritocracy of the West, it’s easy to feel like we’re only as good as our next sales commissions or quarterly reports or music singles or sermons or Instagram posts or new toys. So, we’re constantly out of breath, chasing the

A thought by John Mark Comer from his book, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry (p. 53). The Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) It really is, isn't it? John says, “Jesus wisely said our hearts will follow behind our treasures. (Matthew 6:21) Usually, we interpret treasure to mean our two basic resources: time and money. But an even more precious resource is attention. Without it, our spiritual lives are stillborn in the womb. ” He goes on, “Because attention leads to awareness . All the contemplatives agree. The mystics point out that what’s missing is awareness. Meaning, in the chronic problem of human beings’ felt experience of distance from God, God isn’t usually the culprit. God is omnipresent—there is no place God is not. And no time he isn’t present either. Our awareness of God is the problem, and it’s acute. “So many people live without a sense of God’s presence through the day. We ta

A thought by John Mark Comer from his book, The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry (p. 47). The Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. (Click on the book title to go to Amazon.com to buy the book.) Hurry really does hurt us. John says, “Meyer Friedman—the cardiologist who rose to fame for theorizing that type A people who are chronically angry and in a hurry are more prone to heart attacks … was the one who originally coined the phrase hurry sickness after noticing that most of his at-risk cardiovascular patients displayed a harrying ‘sense of time urgency.’” John then says, “Not to play armchair psychologist, but I’m pretty sure we all have hurry sickness.”   And he gives ten symptoms. (If you wish to know them all please buy his book) Here are two of them: The first one, “ Irritability —You get mad, frustrated, or just annoyed way too easily. Little, normal things irk you. People have to tiptoe around your ongoing low-grade negativity, if not anger. Word of advi