Joy and Privilege of Busyness

The toll of too much busyness can be catastrophic… to our health, to our relationships, and to our faith.

But a type of busyness is welcome.

“Like Martha in scripture, it is easy to feel resentment because we seem to be doing all the work while others are getting more of a free ride…That is the feeling that can weigh us down for long periods during our adult years, and can make us fall asleep to something that we will wake up to only when it is too late, namely, that these years when we are young and healthy and in charge are the best years of our lives. There is something worse than having too much to do, and that is having nothing to do or too little to do of importance. We will be a lot more awake to that fact when we sit in a retirement home, stripped of youth, health, and our car keys, knowing that all those years when we thought we were being taken for granted were years of privilege that were laden with a potential for joy that – because of our unawareness of privilege – we never quite picked up on.” (R.R., p. 76)

May we all be aware of the privilege of busyness and the potential for joy in it, unto the Lord.

“Do not be slothful in zeal, be fervent in spirit, serve the Lord” (Romans 12:11, ESV).

“But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me” (1 Corinthians 15:10, ESV).