Ep. 169 - Finding Calm Amid the Busyness of Life
The Living Waters Podcast
Living Waters
4.9 • 3K Ratings
🗓️ 15 June 2023
⏱️ 47 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | to even dive in further you're absolutely right because we say how are you and it was like good |
| 0:04.0 | and now when you say how are you you hear busy busy is almost like a barometer for how important you are |
| 0:10.9 | how successful you are if you're busy you're important wow that guy's got something to do he's |
| 0:16.1 | doing stuff you know but if the response is hey how are you doing oh I'm good man we're we're |
| 0:21.1 | in a really slow season of life there's almost something demeaning about that it's like what |
| 0:25.2 | don't you have something to do which is a very utilitarian way of looking at the human soul |
| 0:31.2 | it's like your your value is simply in the the ability for you to produce something for society |
| 0:37.2 | that's very consumeristic and it's exhaustive you know someone once said hurry is the violence |
| 0:43.9 | to our soul it tears us down I read this book called ruthless elimination of hurry |
| 0:52.0 | and one of the things that said is the reason we live in a culture increasingly without faith |
| 0:57.6 | is not because science has somehow disproved the unprovable but because the white noise of |
| 1:03.6 | secularism has removed the very stillness in which we endure to be reborn he goes on to say that |
| 1:12.0 | Cory tin boom once said that if the devil can't make you sin he'll make you busy there's truth in |
| 1:18.8 | that both sin and busyness have the exact same effect they cut you off from your connection to God |
| 1:24.9 | to other people and even to your own soul our resident Mexican friend Oscar Navarro challenged our |
| 1:34.3 | resident Arab Emil Francis Zwayne about a word I love that because I was wrong in you were right you've |
| 1:43.3 | got to include in the intro there's no way of goals now raise the resident expert english speaker mark |
| 1:50.1 | we have no idea what you are still I can pogo stick how many times in a row oh god like five |
| 1:57.2 | no way used to do once you like this avid pogo sticker I was said nobody ever |
| 2:02.2 | get that funny seriously you used to do that in you like in your neighborhood yeah a goal to |
| 2:06.8 | like pogo all day yeah your pogo stick would overheat because the friction |
| 2:11.6 | really yeah burn you yeah burn the legs because you you get tired and you could do without your arms |
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