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Welcome back to Best Advent Ever. It's an honor to have these few moments with you each day to reflect on our journey toward Christmas. I hope that you're taking a moment to allow the Holy Spirit to guide you towards the message he most wants to speak into your soul each day. Some days we'll cover many concepts, but there may be one that he most wants to embed into your day, into your life, into your journey at this moment. Last few days we've been talking about busy. We've been talking about the dangers of busy. We've talked about the toxicity of busy. We've talked about the reality that we are at war with busy. And so that raises the question: what is the opposite? What is the opposite of busy? The opposite of busy is so unimportant and so undesirable that we haven't even assigned it a word in our language that we use every day. Strictly speaking, the opposite of busy is unbusy. I've never heard anyone use the word. I've never heard anyone use the word. And so the opposite of busy is so unimportant and so undesirable that we don't even have a word for it in our culture. And think about this. It's also significant that the antonyms are busy are largely derogatory. What are the antonyms? Idle, inactive, lazy, dormant, and passive. Nobody wants to be labeled these things. Nobody wants to be labeled these things. Oh yeah, idle, inactive, lazy, dormant. We don't want to be those things and language has an enormous impact, enormous impact on our lives and on our culture.

And so you can see how the language around busy steers us completely in the direction of more and more busy. And so what is the opposite of busy? Yeah, it doesn't matter because we're not actually striving for the opposite of busy. We're striving for the speed of joy. We're striving for human flourishing. We're not striving for the opposite of busy or the opposite of fast. We are striving for something altogether different. Our minds think there must be an ideal state between busy and idle. There must be a state that allows human beings to thrive, an optimum state for human beings, a state that best facilitates human flourishing. There is such a state, but it isn't found between busy and idle, and it isn't the opposite of fast or busy. The ideal state that most encourages people to flourish contains intense activity and idleness, and everything in between. It contains fast and slow, and every state in between. It also includes states that are not in between fast and slow, but are essential human flourishing, such as pause and stop. The speed of joy isn't one speed. It isn't one static level of activity. It requires the human heart and mind to discern what is best for each season of life, what is best for each day and week, what is best for each activity each day. I know this will be frustrating to some of you. Why? Because our human nature wants it to be easy. Our human nature wants someone to tell us, "Oh, this is the one speed you do it, and that's the speed of joy. And you never have to think about it ever again. Just put your life on autopilot." And we know that isn't real. We know that isn't realistic. Why? Because human beings aren't made that way. We're smarter than that. God created us to be dynamic. He created us to look at something and say, "This should be done quickly." He created us to look at something else and say, "Wow, we should really take our time with this. Really take our time with this and savor this and allow this to touch the depths of our soul." We're not looking for the opposite of busy. We're not looking for the opposite of fast. We're in a quest to flourish. We're in a quest for human flourishing. And that requires the brilliant discernment of the mind that God created us all with the capability of. It's a beautiful thing when you think about it. The ability to discern, I do that really quickly because that is the best way to do that. And I really take my time with that because that is the best way to do that. And so we discover that the speed of joy isn't one speed. It is one specific speed for each specific activity. And God gave us the brilliance, the genius to discern which speed belongs to which activity. Let's celebrate that today. That's a beautiful gift. If you haven't picked up the book yet, pick up a copy of the book. There's still a few copies of the Limited Edition Journal left. Grab them together. Click the button below. Have a great day. And remember, Be Bold, Be Catholic.

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