36. Time out means time out!

ONE DAY AT A TIME
Meditations for Carers

36. Time out means time out!

Luke 10.41–42
 
You know the feeling: you want to take some time out. You need to take some time out. But when you get a few moments alone and you try just to sit quietly and rest, all the things you haven’t done start shouting at you. When you attempt to silence them by telling them that you’ll get to them when you stand up again, and then try to quiet your mind once more, the worries, the niggles and the big concerns start buzzing round inside your head like a swarm of wasps around a saucer of jam.

Worse than that, when we get some proper respite – half a day, a day or longer – the temptation is to get stuck into all the chores that have slipped till now. It’s easy to get caught out like this and before we know it our precious time has gone. So here is another discipline – this time for our benefit! Time out means just that. No chores. No fretting. Time out...


Taken from One Day at a Time: Meditations for Carers by Dorothy M.Stewart

Published by SPCK