Nick Bare

And I missed a lot of moments.

Moments that I can't get back.

I want a busy life.

I want a productive life.

I don't want a hurried life and I don't want a rushed life.

One of my favorite books, another one that I highly recommend by John Mark Comer is called The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry.

This is a book that you should read every single year.

The beginning of every year.

As just like...

a foundational principle in your life, as a reminder, slow down.

Work hard, but slow down.

In the book, John Mark Comer says, because what you give your attention to is the person you become.

Put another way, the mind is the portal to the soul, and what you fill your mind with will shape the trajectory of your character.

In the end, your life is no more than the sum of what you gave your attention to.

That bodes well for those apprentices of Jesus who give the bulk of their attention to him and to all that is good, beautiful, and true in his world.

But not for those who give their attention to the 24-7 news cycle of outrage and anxiety and emotion-charged drama or the nonstop feed of celebrity gossip,

and cultural drive.

But again, we become what we give our attention to for better or worse.

We're called to create margin in our life.

Margin is the space between our load and our limits.