Sunset fatigue, goo goo g'joob
The life you've always wanted
John Ortberg
Sunset fatigue is when we are just too tired, or too drained, or too preoccupied, to love the people to whom we have made the deepest promises. Sunset fatigue has set in, (Lewis Grant) says, when
• you find yourself rushing even when there’s no reason to;
• there is an underlying tension that causes sharp words or sibling quarrels;
• you set up mock races (“OK, kids, let’s see who can take a bath fastest”) that are really about your own need to get through it;
• you sense a loss of gratitude and wonder;
• you indulge in self-destructive escapes from fatigues: abusing alcohol, watching too much TV.
It is because it kills love that hurry is the great enemy of spiritual life. Hurry lies behind much of the anger and frustration of modern life. Hurry prevents us from receiving love from the Father or giving it to his children. That’s why Jesus never hurried. If we are to follow Jesus, we must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from our lives – because, by definition, we can’t move faster than the one we are following.
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I am the eggman, they are the eggmen, I am the walrus
Goo goo g'joob, goo goo g'joob
Such weird songs there are. The songs in Across the Universe sound nicer in the movie than when originally done by The Beatles. At least in my Best of The Beatles CD.
John Ortberg
Sunset fatigue is when we are just too tired, or too drained, or too preoccupied, to love the people to whom we have made the deepest promises. Sunset fatigue has set in, (Lewis Grant) says, when
• you find yourself rushing even when there’s no reason to;
• there is an underlying tension that causes sharp words or sibling quarrels;
• you set up mock races (“OK, kids, let’s see who can take a bath fastest”) that are really about your own need to get through it;
• you sense a loss of gratitude and wonder;
• you indulge in self-destructive escapes from fatigues: abusing alcohol, watching too much TV.
It is because it kills love that hurry is the great enemy of spiritual life. Hurry lies behind much of the anger and frustration of modern life. Hurry prevents us from receiving love from the Father or giving it to his children. That’s why Jesus never hurried. If we are to follow Jesus, we must ruthlessly eliminate hurry from our lives – because, by definition, we can’t move faster than the one we are following.
-
I am the eggman, they are the eggmen, I am the walrus
Goo goo g'joob, goo goo g'joob
Such weird songs there are. The songs in Across the Universe sound nicer in the movie than when originally done by The Beatles. At least in my Best of The Beatles CD.
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