Just a Quote That Helped Me Out

  My cousin sent me this quote from a book she has been reading called, 'Crazy Busy' (I believe) and I was so blessed by it.

  'We cannot having meaningful relationships with thousands of people. We cannot really know what's going on in the world. We cannot truly be here and there at the same time. The biggest deception of our digital age may be the lie that says we can be omni-competent, omni-informed, and omni-present. We cannot be any of these things. We must choose our absence, our inability, and our ignorance wisely. The sooner we can accept this finitude, the sooner we can be free.'

  I feel like after reading this I can breathe so much more deeply. The anxiety technology causes me is ridiculous and this quote helped me realize why. I am not omni-competent, informed or present but I have felt like maybe I should be and I have felt torn and drawn in and all sorts of things. I have been working hard on helping my children manage their anxiety and yet drawn into a bit of a trap that has made mine worse.

  God bless us all. We are experiencing something that has not been seen before to such a degree. This feeling of knowing so so SO much all the time about so many people that we honestly dont really know at all is intoxicating and yet oh so draining. We need to remember that there is a real world, real relationships, real flowers to smell, real mountains to climb, real people to feed, and that is enough. Just a little sermon to myself..and I guess to you too if you are reading.
xo