Choose a Spacious Life

“Hurry is an attitude which comes from an agreement with a lie that God is expecting more than you can do.”

Those words from a good friend rocked my world a decade ago. At the time, I saw a hurried life as inevitable. And if that’s just the way things were, then I’d defy it by going even faster. In a warped way, it was like a badge of honor: Look how busy I am as I do it all. 

Thankfully, my friend saw through me. And with grace, he helped me see hurry in a new way. Because if hurry is an attitude, it isn’t inevitable. I can change my attitude. Especially one built on an agreement with a lie that God was giving me more than I could possibly do. Deep down, I’d come to believe that lie…and the fruit was an overcommitted, overwhelmed life.

But if God is ordering my path (and he is), then I can trust God to illuminate where I should spend my time rather than chase my endless priorities. If God doesn’t expect more of me than I can do each day (and he doesn’t), then I can finally stop striving.

This revolutionary truth has helped me eliminate hurry from my life. You can too. I’ll leave you with some ways to eliminate hurry and choose a spacious life:

• Create more margin rather than more busyness.

• Live simply, below your means.

• Be fully present rather than multi-task and be mostly absent.

• Walk with God rather than run on empty.

• Slow your rhythm rather than wait for the world to calm down. 

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