Pastor and author John Ortberg writes, “We suffer from what has come to be known as ‘hurry sickness.’ One of the great illusions of our day is that hurrying will buy us more time.”1 Ortberg goes on to define clutter, superficiality, multitasking, and speeding up daily activities as causes of hurry sickness. One of the symptoms of hurry sickness, he warns, is the diminished ability to love those to whom we have made the deepest promises. Hurry sickness makes us too tired and too distracted to love well. We immediately think of our family and friends, worried about what our hurry sickness may
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