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Tim Jacobsen, West Des Moines, IA
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Warm-up Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n

What does a typical day look like for you?\u00a0 When do you get up? Go to bed? What activities or commitments do you have? Do you feel too busy or do you need more to do?<\/p>\n

Being Busy
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Life is busy, there is no denying that, but do we as a society choose to make ourselves busier? In the movie, The Sandlot,<\/em> a group of kids gets together to just play baseball, hangout, eat smores (smore what?), and just be kids. This seems so odd to us today. Why would they waste their time just playing?\u00a0 \u00a0What about all their AP classes, traveling teams, competitions, practices, church activities, and other commitments. How are they going to be the best at what they do, if they play just for fun?<\/p>\n

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Our culture puts so much emphasis on being busy. What is one of the first things you say to people when they ask how you are? Typically, it sounds like this, \u201cI\u2019m doing well; I\u2019m just so tired and busy.\u201d We even say we are busy when we are just going to sit with our phones or play video games. We need to reshape our definition of busyness and our priorities.<\/p>\n

An episode of the podcast, On Being with Krista Tippet,<\/em> discussed the \u201cdisease of being busy.\u201d This disease of being \u201cbusy\u201d (and let\u2019s call it what it is, the dis-ease of being busy, when we are never at ease) is spiritually destructive to our health and well-being. It saps our ability to be fully present with those we love the most in our families, and it keeps us from forming the kind of community that we all so desperately crave.<\/p>\n

Discussion Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n