The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry: How to Stay Emotionally Healthy and Spiritually Alive in the Chaos of the Modern World

by John Mark Comer

The good of being delivered from hurry is not simply pleasure but the ability to do calmly and effectively—with strength and joy—that which really matters.

Psalm 23 does not say “The Lord is my shepherd, therefore I gotta run faster.”

“All my worst moments…are when I’m in a hurry.”

Put your cell phone away. Let your heart slow down.

Let God take care of the world.

So he calls up Willard and asks, “What do I need to do to become the me I want to be?”

Willard: “There is nothing else. Hurry is the great enemy of spiritual life in our day.

Corrie ten Boom once said that if the devil can’t make you sin, he’ll make you busy.

Both sin and busyness have the exact same effect—they cut off your connection to God, to other people, and even to your own soul.

God walks “slowly” because he is love.

Love, joy, and peace are the triumvirate at the heart of Jesus’s kingdom vision.

So instead of life with God, we settle for life with a Netflix subscription and a glass of cheap red wine.

So many people live without a sense of God’s presence through the day.

In the end, your life is no more than the sum of what you gave your attention to.

I love how John Ortberg framed it: “Hurry is not just a disordered schedule. Hurry is a disordered heart.”13