If we do not make time for ourselves or our families, we will eventually stop wanting to. If we do not take the time to feel the things we feel, we will soon stop feeling them. Our lives may become more efficient and "productive" but we will begin to suffer an inner death. We will become addicted to the busyness of our lives, never feeling quite at home unless we are running at top speed. Ou families will begin to make their way without us and find their comforts elsewhere. When we are in our offices, at our meetings, we won't even notice it happened.
Unless we assert our need to gather strength from the right places, we will gather it from the wrong: substance abuse, inappropriate relationships, alcoholism. Most of us have been touched by these tragedies directly or indirectly. We need to care for ourselves appropriately. We fail to do so at our peril.
God did not call us into a family life and a working life in order for us to become angry and sick and dead inside. God calls us into an abundant life. While not every day may be a great and wonderful day, each day belongs to us and is a gift from and extravagant and gracious God. We must find and savor each day's sweetness even if through tears. We cannot let a single day pass by us in a blur of work and responsibility. A day is too precious to waste...we can never get it back.
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