Enough Tasking

It's never going to all get done.

Your To-Do lists will always be full of stuff—work, home, family, volunteering, hobbies...all areas of your life packed with lists of things to do.

You are running yourself ragged, trying to get it all done.

If you are reading this in the morning and you feel that anxiety rise as you prepare to grasp your pen with a death grip to start crossing off that list of tasks, pause for a moment and think about this.

On average, you are awake about 16 hours a day. That's 960 minutes or 57,600 seconds.

We want to get it all done, but that's a speck of time in the scope of things. Each second is precious and fleeting as it speeds by.

And, God forbid, what if today was your last, and those hours, minutes, and seconds were the final ones you had here?

I may be being a bit dramatic with all that, but I know I need this reminder to snap me out of my

overworking, overachieving, resentful, grumpy, martyrlike tendencies.

So, if it was your last, would you re-prioritize that list? Would you do those must-do items with a crabby constitution or a joyful heart?

What if you considered your tasks productive pleasures, not pressurized pain points?

Would you stress and remain buried in exasperated busyness, or would you change your attitude and be grateful and joyful for every bit of purpose you have to give in these brief seconds left?

Would you put the pen down and reach out to those you love? Would you tell them how much you care about them, and spend all your remaining time laughing and crying together?

God didn't give you this life to toil and strain till the bitter end.

He gave you this life to have joy to the fullest.

Each hour, minute, and second of this precious life is a gift to be cherished with a thankful heart.

Now, let us proceed to complete just enough tasks to make a productive, peaceful and joy-filled day.

Matthew 11:28

Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

John 15:11

I have told you these things so that My joy and delight may be in you, and that your joy may be made full and complete and overflowing.

Mark 2:27

Then he said to them, "The Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath."

John 10:10

The thief comes only in order to steal and kill and destroy. I came that they may have life, and have it in abundance [to the full, till it overflows].