Tuesday Tunes-day: Bethel Music + Busyness

Good morning friends! Today, we've got some music from an awesome group in Cali!

Fall Afresh

One thing remains

My dear

A friend of mine sent me a really neat article on busyness which I wanted to pass along today. As I've been going through these past few months doing research, one of the things I've wrestled with the most is my relationship towards busyness. As I watch my friends jet set over the country while applying to residency, I feel like I need to fill my life with things too, and I have, with basically the end result being me running around like crazy even though this was a time that I ended to set aside for rest. Don't get me wrong, I don't think it's wise or good for me to sit at home like a bump on a log watching TV for 4 hours every night, but I do think that it is wise to learn how to allow space in your time for people and for prayer and reflection. I found that in myself, I'm good at allowing time for people, but I'm not so good at allowing for the time for prayer and reflection. The crux of it is this: being busy makes me feel important. If I need to be somewhere every hour of the day, I must be important, right? So one of my goals for the rest of this (school) year is to allow more time to rest and just dwell with the Lord. I came across a great couple of verses in Haggai (of all places):

Now, therefore, thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways. You have sown much, and harvested little. You eat, but you never have enough; you drink, but you never have your fill. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm. And he who earns wages does so to put them into a bag with holes. “Thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider your ways. Go up to the hills and bring wood and build the house, that I may take pleasure in it and that I may be glorified, says the Lord. You looked for much, and behold, it came to little. And when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? declares the Lord of hosts. Because of my house that lies in ruins, while each of you busies himself with his own house.

Haggai 1:5-9

I think these verses really well describe how I feel - working for things to make me feel important just doesn't satisfy and leaves me craving more.  My challenge for myself (and you!) is to  focus on glorifying the Lord in all the things I do and to rest in his presence.