Margin - the space between our load and our limit. I heard an interview on the radio with the author of a book called 'Margin.' Very interesting insight on why we are so harried. Here's a description of the book.
Overload is not having time to finish the book you’re reading on stress. Margin is having time to read it twice. Overload is fatigue. Margin is energy. Overload is red ink. Margin is black ink. Overload is hurry. Margin is calm. Overload is anxiety. Margin is security. Overload is the disease of our time. Margin is the cure.
Margin is the space that once existed between ourselves and our limits. It’s something held in reserve for contingencies or unanticipated situations.
In Margin, Dr. Richard Swenson provides a prescription against the danger of overloaded lives. Focusing on margin in four key areas—emotional energy, physical energy, time, and finances—he offers an overall picture of health that employs contentment, simplicity, balance, and rest.
If you yearn for relief from the pain and pressure of overload, take a lifelong dose of Margin. The benefits of good health, financial stability, fulfilling relationships, and availability for God’s purposes will follow you all your days.
He had interesting insight on how as technology progresses, life for most people gets busier.
I'm going to have to find time to read this book. (in my margin of course!:>)
His website. check out the books link.
http://www.richardswenson.org/index.html
1 comment:
sounds kind of similar to Thoreau and his Walden - I wonder how Swenson incorporates a Christian world view into his book?
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