If you are not intentional to allow your soul to catch up with your body, I promise it will never take place. Resolve to invest in time to do what is “nothing” in the eyes of the world. In God’s eyes, you are doing something for your greater good.
Have you ever considered making a New Year’s resolution to do nothing? Rather than declaring you will lose twenty pounds or exercise three times a week, resolve to take some time to do nothing. Nothing at all.
If during this holiday season you find yourself set aside from the busyness of life, understand that while you may feel useless, that doesn’t mean God sees you that way – and other people may be watching.
Before you get caught in this compare-and-despair trap, consider to whom you’re about to compare yourself. Would you say this person is in the average range or at one extreme or the other?
As best-selling author Dr. John Townsend suggests, be "curious rather than defensive" when someone tries to give you feedback about yourself. Take the risk and ask some of your closest, loving, truth-telling friends how they see you.
What if your friends could perceive you as a “concentrated package of energy”? Would they say you bring God's light, peace, love, and joy to them? Or would they say you rob them of His life-giving spirit?