Worry is an unrest in the soul. Worry confines me to defensive strategies in order to survive. Worry trust the illusion that I can control outcomes. Worry narrows my imagination to the domain of what I can think or conceive. Worry constantly and only at whatever is already known in order to make sure that …
It's not the busyness of life but the weighted busyness that is the problem. Each thing comes with a weight, an anxiety or fear to it.
Psalm 62:1-8; Matthew 11:25-30 Busy is simply a matter of schedule. Hurried is a matter of soul. But Jesus OFTEN withdrew to lonely (solitary) places to pray. Love is never in a hurry.
Secrecy. Is it a bad thing? Doesn’t the word secrecy have undesirable if not immoral connotations? The notion of secrecy often calls to mind clandestine activities and cover-ups – like the Watergate scandal or tapping the phones of governmental leaders. But in the context of servant leadership the practice of secrecy is born from a …