Most of us are too busy to live an emotionally and spiritually healthy life.

Dallas Willard once called hurry “the great enemy of spiritual life in our day.” 

In our increasingly secular, urban world, hurry is often the issue under all the other issues. The root cause beneath so much of the anger and anxiety of our cultural moment. And followers of Jesus are not immune to culture’s pain.

Many of us live with a low-grade fatigue and chronic anxiety that rarely, if ever, goes away. We careen through our days at breakneck speed, and wonder where God is in the fray.   

The reality is, the love, joy, and peace that form the nucleus of Jesus’ kingdom are all impossible in a life of speed. We must, as Willard went on to say, “Ruthlessly eliminate hurry.”