Too Busy?

Busy week this last week, teaching block at Cliff College, re-opening/re dedication of the Diaconal Centre trying to put final preparations into 'The Quiet Space' and 'Breakfast on the Beach'. There are two areas in my home that have always reflected how busy I am; the kitchen and the study - both look as if a bomb has hit them - I've managed the kitchen this morning but I am sitting typing this amidst piles of books and papers. More recently, since most of the children have left home, I notice that the quiet room (in existence for the last year) also reflects my busyness in a different way; it remains static: the prayer cards on the board don't change, the song book is open at the same page, the devotional material is in the same place...... I find I am more disturbed by that sight than any mountain of chaos elsewhere, it means that the need for prayer, despite so many years of practice, is still more head theory than heart knowledge. Until it becomes my first and most important call in a busy day; rather than the thing that that gets squeezed out if I run out of time, I have not yet got my priorities right. So I am going now to leave the chaos of the study right now and go mess up the quiet room!