Focus on what matters.

Life gets so busy and for what purpose?  Really, for what purpose?  You worry about doing everything and you are ready to respond to the next task that may arise but is this what life is about?  Is it all so important when you have not seen a friend in an age or someone is waiting to talk with you from the side?  In a busy life, do I lose sight of what really matters?  Then what about good self care?  And, no, don't go down the road of Catholic guilt on that one!  

Doing, doing!  This is not the way to live life or to nourish oneself.

I then saw again this picture of two poor, young Burmese guys who are back in the news here.  They have been found guilty of rape and murder in a high profile case where the tragic victims were two young western tourists holidaying on a favoured Thai island.  These two guys now face the death sentence or many years in jail.  So doubly tragic when the whole case against them seems so fragile, unfair and unjust.  Basically, they just didn't do it but look at what they have to deal with as their appeal is before the courts this week.  Looking at their story gives a real sense of what really matters in life, and it has to be much more than doing, doing all the time.  We matter.  People matter.  That is what comes first.  As I say at church, being before doing.  

Stand back and take a look at life.  If it is being overcome by doing and all that goes with it - stress and loss of perspective in life - then it is time to do life differently.  Life is too precious to waste on just focusing on doing.  Life is too precious to see two innocent souls suffering for what they didn't do.  I pray for them and I thank them this day as they, in their distress, have reminded me of what really matters in life.