A moment

I did it.  For a brief moment this morning, I put the urgent away and could wholly be engrossed in the important.  Well, two important things...Important #1 & Important #2

For a moment it didn't matter that it was going to take us almost 45 minutes to walk two blocks downtown and back to get the mail, meat, and a cookie.  The important guys wanted to have a good time.  I was up for it.  The laundry, the mess, the urgent as Charles Hummel calls it, could wait!

 "We live in constant tension between the urgent and the important," Hummel writes. "The problem is that the important task rarely must be done today or even this week.  Extra hours of prayer and Bible study can wait.  But the urgent tasks call for instant action--endless demands pressure every hour and every day."

Joann Weaver quotes Hummel's The Tyranny of the Urgent in her own book Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World.  (You can read here & here about that.)  I finally ordered my own copy of Hummel's book and have been slowly making my way through it.  It's small and quick but I want to absorb.  This balance between the urgent and the important has been pulling at me for a long time.  It's relentless and I have become so tired of it.  The urgent is not the important.  I think it's where I've been going with my last few posts.  (here & here).  

And while it was only a moment, it was a start.  I will keep telling the urgent back off, go away, and let my heart do what God has called me to...mothering.