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Cadre: I'm feeling super tired these last few days. He had his son's first soccer tournament of the season. Maybe it's the weather. It's still gloomy here in southern California.
Luke: I'm reading a book called the ruthless elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer. The author talks about how we're so hurried in everything that we do. He says all of our worst moments happen when we're in this hurried phase. Luke: Just ask yourself, am I being hurried right now?
Good morning, Cadre. I hope everybody is doing great and had a great weekend. I had my son's first soccer tournament of the season, and he's so into it, so it's just fun watching him and getting to be back out there. I had a moment of reminiscing over my girls years ago. Now. My oldest is already. Gosh, she's already in her. She's 26, so she's, you know, been out of it for a while. But I was like, oh, I miss being here with the girls. It just. I'm glad I get to still continue doing those sort of things with my son, so I'm gonna really cherish and hold on to the next few years that he's willing and excited about being involved in sports.
So that was my weekend, and I don't know why, but I'm feeling super tired these last few days, and it's weird because I eat well. I'm thinking back, like, what. What is causing me to be this sleep? It's been harder for me to wake up. I just feel like I can easily take a nap during the day. Over the last few days. I don't know what it is. It's just. Maybe it's the weather. It's still gloomy here in southern California. Even the meteorologists are saying things like, we call it may gray June gloom, and they're like, please don't let it be a no sky.
July, I will die. That all rhymed. So anyhow, all right, well, let's jump in. Today, I want to talk to you about this idea that I found in a book that I'm reading called the ruthless elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer. It's such a good book. I'm almost finished with it now, but I've got this. I pulled this one nugget from it, and it is this. That slow equals love. So let me break this down for you. The author talks about how we're so hurried in everything that we do, and all of our worst moments happen when we're in this hurried phase.
Right? So if you think about it, it makes perfect sense. If you are in a hurry when you're driving, you might be rude toward other people, right? You're. Maybe you're not going to let somebody get in front of you, or you get upset and angry with people who you think are driving reckless or. Or whatever the case may be. If you're in a hurry to get somewhere, you might have less patience or grace with your own family members or your coworkers. When we're in this state of hurry. We're just, we have less patience.
We're less kind and graceful toward others. And it talks about how we're all in such a hurry, if not physically, then it could be mentally. Our minds are always racing. I don't know about you, but I know this is true for me. I have so many thoughts on my mind just constantly, right? And they, they distract me, they preoccupy me and it takes away from me being fully present with people that I really care about and that I want to be present for. But my mind is just always racing. And so I wanted to read you just a part of this book that talks about the dangers and the harm of hurry and how it really does impact in a negative way, life.
So let me just read this to you. Hurry kills relationships. Love takes time. Hurry doesn't have it. It kills joy, gratitude, appreciation. People in a rush don't have time to enter the goodness of the moment. It kills wisdom. Wisdom is born in the quiet, the slow. Wisdom has its own pace. It makes you wait for it, wait for the inner voice to come to the surface of your tempestuous mind. I hope I said that right. But not until waters of thought settle and calm. Hurry kills all that we hold dear. Spirituality, health, marriage, family, thoughtful work, creativity, generosity.
Name your value. Hurry is a sociopathic predator loose in our society. And so I just wanted to plant those seeds. I think awareness is always key. There's so much more in this book that I want to talk about, maybe in future lives, but I just thought of this, the power behind this idea that slow equals love. Because anything that we do in a hurry or in a rush is not going to bear that. It's just going to bear a lack of patience, a lack of grace with people that we love and care about and in our spirit.
And so that is, just ask yourself the question, am I being hurried right now? And if so, how is that impacting me and others around me? Hey, Luke. Oh, my gosh, Luke. I'm just in disbelief over what you just accomplished. It's amazing. So inspired by you. So that is it. Take that with you and allow it to just settle in and guide you through the rest of your week. And I hope it is a great rest of your week and I will see you again next time. Bye.
