I’ve been making my way through Dan Allender’s Leading with a Limp. The book’s value has been upped by a series of small group discussion times I was invited to participate in, but even without the benefit of real-time, transparent conversations, this one is a must-read.

Here are a couple quotes I’ve been chewing on.

Being busy seems like the polar opposite of laziness, but a busy person is not so much active as lost. A lazy person does little to nothing while a busy person does almost everything, but the similarity is that both refuse to be intentional. Busyness is the moral equivalent of laziness.

I spend a lot of time rushing from place to place while multi-tasking and trying not to spill coffee on myself, so those words strike home. Deliberate action, not constant activity, is the goal. More goodness:

Our frenetic pace will, in the fullness of time, reveal our threadbare souls. The revelation is not merely that we are exhausted and need a break. It isn’t even that we are overextended and need more balanced lives. As true as those things may be, the truest revelation is that we have lost sight of our callings and, far more, of the One who calls.

Seeing exhaustion as a road sign back to Jesus is exactly what I need to cultivate. “Retirement” is something to aim for daily, not something that happens after you put in your 60+ years.