Yep. You read that right. “Ruthlessly eradicate hurry from your life.” This pithy quote is a favorite of mine from the inestimable Dallas Willard. Hurry is a towering barrier to the life God has for us. Sadly, many of us, in the words of Richard Foster, quoting Thomas Kelly, “We live so much of our lives in ‘an intolerable scramble of panting feverishness.’”. Some of us are perpetually in a hurry. We might even think that hurrying is good, because in our perception, when we hurry, we can squeeze in one more thing. And isn’t that the object of life, to get more done? To accomplish more?

Well, no. It is not. We are creatures made by God to love and to be loved.