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If there is one thing that I am good at, it is feeling overwhelmed. I always seem to have to-do lists as high as the Himalayas, and, undoubtedly, as sure as I am feeling good about checking things off, the list fills up again. Some days, I literally feel like I am drowning; my brain is not getting enough oxygen and it’s hard to think straight. Do you know the feeling?

I think that a lot of people have similar stories as mine. In fact, our culture seems to praise being too busy. Everything from our education system, to our jobs, even our churches, are designed to keep us going. There is a misnomer about sharks that if they stop swimming they will die (this is kind of true for a couple of species, but that’s beside the point). It seems like we have moved that misnomer over to the human race. We believe that busy equals productive. We get our purpose from being busy, but have we gone too far?