“The real problem of Christian life comes where people do not usually look for it. It comes the very moment you wake up each morning. All your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists simply in shoving them all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in. And so on, all day. Standing back from all your natural fussings and frettings; coming in out of the wind.”
-C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
I think of this quote all of the time. It haunts me when I jump out of bed in a rush to do a hundred different things. Richard’s van pool picks him up EARLY, so if I get up when he does, I have one or two hours before the kids are up each morning. I usually read. If I am feeling sloggy, I will exercise. This pillow of time helps me do the important things and better differentiate the Urgent from the Important, the Pressing from the Essential.