Busyness and Angst

This is a summary of a daily column by BreakPoint the writings of the late Chuck Colson now written by an outstanding team of thoughtful journalists...and moralists.

People, they write, are anxious, not about how they will make ends meet or put food on the table or the problem with some disorder that requires medical help. The anxiety is almost always self-imposed. Classes, lessons, volunteerism,..."It's the busyness of people who 'feel anxious and guilty when they aren't either working or doing something to promote their work.'"

Busyness, writes Tim Kreider in "The Busyness Trap" is our way of telling ourselves that "our lives cannot possible be trivial or silly or meaningless if we are in demand every minute of the day."

Jesus said we could come to him and we could find rest.

But rest is exactly what we don't want others to see us doing.

The article makes the point that when the New York Times wrote its continuing series on anxiety, faith was left out of the remedies The author then ponders whether that omission was because so few examples of faith making a difference exist in the faith community, that Christians are just as busy as everyone else.

That should leave us, well....anxious...

And that's what I think about it.