Crazy Busy: A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem

by Kevin DeYoung

We are here and there and everywhere. We are distracted. We are preoccupied. We can’t focus on the task in front of us. We don’t follow through. We don’t keep our commitments. We are so busy with a million pursuits that we don’t even notice the most important things slipping away.

Busyness is like sin: kill it, or it will be killing you.

Busyness kills more Christians than bullets.

We need to guard our hearts. The seed of God’s Word won’t grow to fruitfulness without pruning for rest, quiet, and calm.

You are unique. Your gifts are important. People love you. But you’re not irreplaceable.

God grants wisdom and discernment and good friends to help us understand our hearts.

“The supply of time is totally inelastic. No matter how high the demand, the supply will not go up. There is no price for it and no marginal utility curve for it. Moreover, time is totally perishable and cannot be stored.

If someone recorded your life for a week and then showed it to a group of strangers, what would they guess is the “good portion” in your life?