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If we’re not careful life can wear us thin, with far too many days and nights filled with commitment of work, school or kids. We can become slaves to alarm clocks, day planners, our own schedule and everyone else’s. As a husband, father, grandfather and business owner, I’m notoriously bad about packing far too much in too little time; and it’s exhausting. How about you?
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Vince Lombardi once said, “fatigue makes cowards of us all”, but it can do much more. Chronic business can make us frustrated, short-tempered, depressed and worse. There is a very simple but hard to execute remedy. We must carve out time to rest and time to play. Both ideas fit well in the definition of the word – recreation; “any activity done for enjoyment when not working”.
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Let’s take the same 10 letters and add a hyphen to make a radical difference. Re-creation: to be made new; any activity done for deep soul satisfying peace, joy and laughter (my definition). Let that soak in for a moment. To be made new daily – re-newed; re-stored; re-freshed.
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This kind of activity looks different for all of us. For you it may be chess, a fantastic meal with friends, a good book or ultimate frisbee. However, the one thing we all have in common is- we all need it. Without this deep re-freshment you and I will never have the time, passion and the energy to truly live the life we were created to live. Let’s examine a whole new way of thinking about re-creation and raise a battle cry against hurry, worry, and mind-numbing, life-robbing busyness.
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