Busy

Without a doubt, as I write this or perhaps as this is being read, the reader and the writer are both incredibly busy. This fact is no longer even questioned, we are busy. From the time we wake in the morning to the time we retire for the evening, our days are filled with a constant velocity and fury of busyness. In line at the local grocer, I heard this exchange, "Young man, hurry up I am very busy today", the clerk responded "Lady the world is busy."

Sir or madam, for the last time let me tell you now, the world is collectively busy. From this point forward, just as no one walks around and says "I'm breathing", forever more henceforth there is no need to disclose our busyness. We get it, enough said, we are busy. We are busy with things we can control and with things we can't. Declaring our busyness is justification of why we don't do the things we really should. Put another way, when we are too busy to do the things we ought to, maybe we're not busy at all in the sense we've come to expect.

I once heard, busy is short for buried under Satan's yoke. Seems we may not be as busy as we thought we were, instead it seems we're merely distracted. The distraction is deliberate, diabolical, and deadly. Maybe all this busyness is by design. I was going to read my bible today but... I was going to spend time with my kids today but... I was going to stop and see my parents today but... I was to busy. Satan is called the great deceiver, maybe some or most of our busyness is designed to distract us from God and the things God loves. Maybe when we're buried under the yoke of Satan we aren't busy we're simply not focused.

Matthew 11:30 "For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." Jesus offers a different yoke, our busyness keeps us away from him. Maybe it's time to re-focus.