Space Between

Overdoing is easy. Undoing takes some discipline.

Americans work harder and harder, but America doesn't seem to work. Even the unemployed are over-stressed. We do more, but accomplish less. How's that?

Americans know how to make war but not how to be at peace. We know how to run marathons but not how to take a walk. We know how to lift weights but not how to lay our burdens down. We know how to go but not how to stay, how to work but not how to play, how to fill ourselves but not how to be empty. We pray and ask for things, but we don't meditate and receive the gifts of silence. In our ceaseless doing, we've even forgotten how to breathe.

Our drug of choice is worry. But the medicine we need to take is a little space between thoughts.