“Life is always a process, and it is the process that God is concerned with more than productivity. He knows perfectibility is not possible and that all our labors are feeble against the brokenness of the world. When we overly emphasize productivity (a typically American thing to do), we often pervert the process: instead of faith, we substitute work; instead of depth, we substitute speed; instead of love, we substitute money; instead of prayer, we substitute busyness.”
The Overload Syndrome: Learning to Live Within Your Limits by Richard A. Swenson, M.D.
Loved this. Thanks for posting. The sermon I listened to last weekend was about this same idea–we often live under the tyranny of the urgent and lose sight of the things that are truly important. The things of eternal value.