I took some time yesterday to work through some really helpful questions from this email I received from Getting Things Done: http://www.davidco.com/newsletters/archive/0112.html. I realized one large gap in my life as I reviewed the previous year. I accomplished a lot, but had little joy. If there’s one word I want others to be able to describe me with in 2012 its the word joy.
As I was in prayer this morning I realized that I can do many things, but if I lack joy then it diminishes the beauty of the Christian life in to one big chore. Obviously we have things we must accomplish, but how can we do them in such a way as to exude and make evident to the world our deep joy and gladness?
My first step in this is to rededicate my prayer life. Before I set off to do my many tasks for the day I am seeking the calm and peace that comes from sitting in prayer before God. In short, I’m done being busy simply for the sake of busyness. Busyness seems to breed haste and haste breeds emptiness. Prayer breeds poise and poise breeds joyfulness. Let us be joyful.
