Month: June 2021

“You cannot just float in the waters of life and trust that the current will take you wherever you hope to be one day. Discipleship requires our willingness to swim upstream when needed.” – Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Agency without responsibility is one of the foremost anti-Christ doctrines.

The List:
1. Blaming others
2. Rationalizing or justifying
3. Making excuses
4. Minimalizing or trivializing sin
5. Hiding
6. Covering up
8. Abandoning responsibility
9. Denying or lying
10. Rebelling
11. Complaining and murmuring
12. Finding fault and getting angry
13. Making demands and entitlements
14. Doubting, losing hope, giving up, and quitting
15. Indulging in self-pity and a victim ­mentality
16. Being indecisive or being in a spiritual ­stupor
17. Procrastinating
18. Allowing fear to rule
19. Enabling

Hiiumaa, Estonia

Busyness does not equate to happiness.

Busyness doen’t equal success.

“Busyness” is not necessarily evidence of the wise use of time.

Busyness can create the illusion that we are effective when we are not.

we must not allow ourselves to get bogged down in administrative busyness.

Busyness does not naturally lead to accomplishment

Our “busyness” must not crowd out our prayers to our Father in Heaven.

Busyness and weariness often lead to missing the mark.

My busyness incident to the pressing cares of the world can make me quite content with a superficial understanding of spiritual things.

Quiet, sustained goodness is the order of heaven, not conspicuous but episodic busyness.    NAMaxwell

Wise scheduling to benefit the family is often victimized by our busyness.    NAM

The honorable may be blinded by busyness, caught up in other causes, or preoccupied with trivia.  NAMaxwell

Sadly, in our busyness, we sometimes fail other members of the Church. (or our own family)   NAMaxwell

Sometimes we are, in our busyness, like the sincere but unnoticing hospital visitor who stood on the patient’s oxygen tube.

While anxiously inquiring about the patient’s welfare!    NAMaxwell

Routineness and busyness, in and of themselves, are not bad, but their steady drumbeat can distract us.

Besides, busyness is no substitute for purpose and meaning.    NAMaxwell

We can be consumed by our busyness rather than pursuing our fundamental purposes.  Without clearly defined goals,

most mortals concentrate on activity with the real task of becoming enslaved by it.     NAMaxwel

Effective activity brings accomplishments, results. Ineffective activity (busyness without results) brings frustration and can breed discouragement

and an unbelieving or defeatist attitude. Effectiveness-accomplishment-success: one and the same thing.    SRCovey

No wonder one of the adversary’s favorite tactics is busyness—getting us so preoccupied with the flurry of daily life that we fail to immerse ourselves in the gospel of Jesus Christ. Sheri Dew