I wanted to start tonight with a brief story, given the time of year, one student fill into

a cycle of classes of studying and working and sleeping and intense stress and didn't realize

how long he had neglected to write home until he received the following note. Dear son, your mother

and I enjoyed your last letter. Of course, we were much younger than and more impressionable.

Love dad. So I share that because for many of us, this is a season that feels like things are

speeding up fast, that we're kind of everything's racing through school, through school semesters,

towards the holidays. So the currents of life are in full tilt and it's not just students as you

know it's parents getting their kids to school and so on and I shared some months ago about one

woman who described in her busyness, she was trying to get her daughter out of the house and

and her daughter was kind of show or something and every time her daughter would call her over,

she'd say well just just hang on a moment, I'll be there in a second. So finally her daughter

came out of her room and she was tired of waiting and she said you know hands on hips why are you

always so busy? What's your name? Is it President Obama or something? So she said she was called out

by her four-year-olds. So I share this because along with the quality the speediness is a perception

which is there's not enough time and it's interesting to observe how often we are living with

that perception there's not enough time and with that there's a squeeze where we sense and I don't

have space in my life, I don't have space in my life and the expression of it is there's an anxiety,

I'm not going to be prepared, there's something around the corner that is going to be too much,

I'm going to fall short, I won't get something critical done you know. So there's a sense that we're

on our way somewhere else and that what's right here is not the time that matters we're kind of

trying to get to the time that you know we get things checked off the list then we can rest and

you know and as long as that's our mentality we're really racing towards the end of our life.

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