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Welcome back to Best Advent Ever, and our journey through slowing down to the speed of joy. Yesterday, did you feel yourself slowing down? Did you notice yourself mentally experiencing things in different ways? As we begin to slow down to the speed of joy, my hope is that you would have that experience more and more, and that you see yourself, you feel yourself really experiencing things on a different level. So as we slow down to the speed of joy, we should experience things more fully. Some people say they have no regrets. I hear people say that all the time. Oh, I have no regrets. Back in my life, I have no regrets. I'm not one of those people. I do have some regrets as I look back on my life. In part one, the section called Beyond the Joyless Urgency, I wrote, "There are people who say they have no regrets. I'm not one of them. If I could go back and live my life all over again, there are things I would change. One thing I would change is the speed at which I have lived my life. I would slow my life down and not just a little." So it's a difficult realization to come to when you come to the realization, you do have a regret. I live my life at such a speed. I did live my life like a Ferrari with no brakes. And I missed out on the fullness of so many experiences. And since I've started trying to slow down the speed of joy, that has changed radically, but I still find myself falling into that trap at times.
About 10 years ago, a friend of mine said to me just casually in conversation. He said to me, "Do you ever feel like you're doing enough?" And when he asked me the question, I literally had never considered the question. Never considered the concept that there might actually be enough. You might actually be able to do enough. Because I think we have these to-do lists that are just never ending. We never get through them. It doesn't matter how much we do or how hard we work or how well we manage our time or plan our time. We just never seem to get through these things. But there is enough. God created 24 hours a day. And so there is such a thing as enough. Another great question that really convicted me was when I asked another friend of mine, "Why are you so busy?" And I remember as soon as I asked the question, it's like in the movies, you see these submarines, they shoot a missile off and then something goes wrong and the missile goes out and it turns around, comes back and comes straight at the submarine. As soon as I asked that question, it was like one of these self-seeking missiles. I asked my friend, "Why are you so busy?" And then I thought to myself, "Why am I so busy? What is it in the service of?" And I think very often, the worst part of it all was that I told myself, "Oh, it's for God." And of course, yes, the work was for God, but I think I was doing much, much, much, much more than God ever intended me to do. The challenge of slowing down to the speed of joy is working out what are the few vital things that God wants us to do each day? And the gift of slowing down to the speed of joy is working out what are those few vital things that God wants us to do each day. That's the challenge and the gift.
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