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by Glyndora Condon
e are prescribed Rest, Easy, and Lite. However, today people are reinforced by this culture of the drive of being on a treadmill of constant
• Feel that things, money, or titles make us more valued than others. • Find that sickness, our children, our pain, our
running and business, only to find it a challenge to find a
relationships, our clothing, our intelligence, our
happy medium between laziness and craziness.
finances, our possessions, our bodies, our faces, our talents, and our work all compete with others to be the MOST, BEST, or WORST as we become completely absorbed in them. • And we even judge our significance by how much stress and business we have upon our shoulders. Therefore, we push and pressure ourselves and others, but the cost of this problem is most costly. Overloaded people tend: 1. To drift from their core values and the ability to discern as they cut corners in order to sandwich as many things possible within the same day, often seeking easy outs, lowering quality, and lowering higher standards. 2. To value self and not others while comparing ourselves with others and with things.
We are running as we: • Believe that we must have our children in every possible positive activity at the expense of the family, family time, and rest. • Are consumed with screen time and social media, with it reinforcing our feelings of becoming an overachiever—otherwise, we will not measure up—or that we must have pleasure 100% of the day as we lose ourselves in the gaming and prioritize it over our real lives and needs. • Have decided that since work is a need to support ourselves and our families, then we lose our identities within work and allow it to consume us as our
3. To struggle with relationships that are sacrificed. 4. To be consumed by the to-do lists with no time and no energy to interact with people. 5. To view life as a contest (Romans 12:15) in a competition where we will become impatient, resentful, intolerant, and irritable. 6. To have extreme fear of losing, being on top in any possible context. 7. To have our spiritual growth challenged, slowed, and shallower as we praise our own or other’s efforts more than we praise God. He takes the back seat as an obligation, and sometimes we resent this added burden.
families long to be with us. the fear of saying no, since then, they may not value us or love us anymore.
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About The Author
• Must be the fix-it, go-to for all family and friends with Glyndora Condon, MS MF, LPC; Heal and Hope Counseling Services. Mother of 4, grandmother of 8; entrepreneur of a Christian based counseling service; healhopecounseling.com.
