Margin Needed

Six kids, six different directions. A busy wife who is buried under medical reciepts and invoices. House and yard work to be done. Cars breaking. Appliances dying. Financial paperwork in piles. Busy is an understatement. If things get any busier, I fear a collapse!

We are needing some margin in life right now, but not going to get it.

"Margin"- a concept written about by Dr. Richard Swenson. His premise is that we have pushed life too fast and too hard, that we have too much going on.

His analogy is the written page. Fatigue sets in if you try to read a book which has type running across the entire page. It takes effort to sort through all the text. It drains us to try to decipher that much information.

Swenson suggests that is what we do with life. We cram activity into every nook and cranny of life. We lack "margin," and there is a price to be paid for that.

Get the book, read it and try to apply the principles. You'll be glad you did.