Your Pressures

Reclaiming Peace, Rest, and Contentment

If I were your enemy, I’d make everything seem urgent, as if
it’s all yours to handle. I’d bog down your calendar with so
many expectations you couldn’t tell the difference between
what’s important and what’s not. Going and doing, guilty for
ever saying no, trying to control it all, but just being
controlled by it all instead.... If I could keep you busy
enough, you’d be too overwhelmed to even realize how much
work you’re actually saving me.

Pressure.

Pressure to keep up. Pressure to keep going. Pressure to
stay ahead, stay afloat, stay relevant. Pressure to do for others
what they maybe ought to be doing for themselves.