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“THE UNHURRIED LIFE” The Practice Slowing Part 3

“THE UNHURRIED LIFE” The Practice Slowing Part 3. Video clip here. Symptoms of Hurry Sickness. 1. Do you constantly speed up daily activities?. Symptoms of Hurry Sickness. 2. Do you find yourself doing or thinking more than one thing at a time?. Symptoms of Hurry Sickness.

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“THE UNHURRIED LIFE” The Practice Slowing Part 3

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  1. “THE UNHURRIED LIFE” The Practice SlowingPart 3

  2. Video clip here

  3. Symptoms of Hurry Sickness 1. Do you constantly speed up daily activities?

  4. Symptoms of Hurry Sickness 2. Do you find yourself doing or thinking more than one thing at a time?

  5. Symptoms of Hurry Sickness 3. Is your life cluttered?

  6. Symptoms of Hurry Sickness 4. The inability to LOVE!

  7. Symptoms of Hurry Sickness 4. The inability to LOVE! Ortberg says, “Love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible. Love always takes time and time is one thing that hurried people don’t have.”

  8. Symptoms of Hurry Sickness 5. Do you suffer from “Sunset Fatigue?”

  9. Hurry Sickness Do you suffer from Hurry Sickness? Hurry is a love killer and it is a great enemy of the spiritual life. That is why we must ruthlessly eliminate hurry. Our lives depend upon it.

  10. Mark 6:30 The apostles gathered around Jesus and reported to him all they had done and taught. 31 Then, because so many people were coming and going that they did not even have a chance to eat, he said to them, “Come with me by yourselves to a quiet place and get some rest.”

  11. 32 So they went away by themselves in a boat to a solitary place. 33 But many who saw them leaving recognized them and ran on foot from all the towns and got there ahead of them. 34 When Jesus landed and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. So he began teaching them many things.

  12. 45 Immediately Jesus made his disciples get into the boat and go on ahead of him to Bethsaida, while he dismissed the crowd. 46 After leaving them, he went up on a mountainside to pray.

  13. We can’t allow hurry sickness to get in the way of our relationship with God and we can’t let it get in the way of our ability to love when love is required.

  14. SO WHAT? Is your pace of life getting in the way of your relationship with Jesus? Is your pace of life getting in the way of your ability to love when love is required?

  15. The first practice is “SLOWING”

  16. The traditional practice of “Solitude”

  17. Mark 1:35 Very early in the morning, while it was still dark, Jesus got up, left the house and went off to a solitary place, where he prayed.

  18. Henri Nouwen wrote, “In solitude, I get rid of my scaffolding.” Scaffolding is all of the stuff that we use to keep ourselves propped up, to convince ourselves that we are important or ok! In solitude we have no friends to talk with, no phone calls or meetings, no tv, no books or magazines to occupy and distract the mind. Each of us would be, in the words of the old hymn, “JUST AS I AM!”

  19. So what are you going to intentionally do, to train in the practice of SLOWING and SOLITUDE? We Must Ruthlessly Eliminate Hurry!

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