PACE OF OUR LIFE!!

The pace of our life today is evidently hectic. For most of us, we're busy doing lots of things, and busy trying to 'create' more time to do even lots more. As the standard of living generally improves (as more things are invented to make life apparently easier), we realise we need more to afford this improved standard.

These improvements also open our eyes to the potential good that we're capable of, and the contribution we could make to humanity. Our days are fraught with activity and occupations, with virtually no time for proper rest. When we seem to rest, technology finds ways of stealing these precious moments.

Yet, due to our finite nature, we need rest. In addition to the health benefits of rest (spiritual, physical, intellectual and emotional), true rest provides us an opportunity to reflect on our activity: effectiveness, efficiency, impact, long term considerations, and improvements. It allows people to reflect deeply on whether all that expansion of empire is necessary, or worth it.

Those who would transform society find in rest the opportunity to evaluate their methods and implementation. The separation between person and activity aids a separation between messenger and effect (some messengers erroneously think they're the causes).

True rest helps the agent to reconnect with the Prime Mover. In the reflective silence of rest is compassion born. The agent emerges with a better grasp of the actual needs of the people to whom his/her service is directed, above the speculative and personal foundations of that service (and above one's preferred methods). The heart of a genuine shepherd is suffocated by incessant frantic activity