“The Disease of Being Busy” by Omid Safi is one of those blog posts that I read over and over again. It is the two-by-four to the head that most of us need. You should go read it right now, even if you don’t come back to this one. But here’s a taste:
What happened to a world in which we can sit with the people we love so much and have slow conversations about the state of our heart and soul, conversations that slowly unfold, conversations with pregnant pauses and silences that we are in no rush to fill?
How did we create a world in which we have more and more and more to do with less time for leisure, less time for reflection, less time for community, less time to just… be?
I came across another post this past week which is a pragmatic look at what a business owner did to intentionally pare down his “fake busy” at work. I think it’s a great follow-up from the piece by Safi, getting us to think of specific ways this problem pervades our vocations and how tackling them is a difficult but life-giving exercise.
Meaningful Returns 
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