"There are two realities of the modernized, urbanized, globalized world that most everyone else in human history could not fathom: our complexities and our opportunities."
I chose this book for this issues book digest primarily because of the title. For weeks I had been thinking what book to feature in this segment until I decided to visit a bookstore. As I was scanning the shelves I saw this book and the title caught my attention.I was hooked by the title itself - Crazy Busy.Who wouldn't be? Plus, the subtitle 'A (Mercifully) Short Book about a (Really) Big Problem" was such a relief. I bought it for 750 pesos. Crazy Busy received the 20l4 ECPA Medallion of Excellence For the Christian Book the Year.
Author Kevin DeYoung, senior pastor at the University Reformed Church in Michigan and an award winning author, blogger and conference speaker, emphasized that this book was riot written because he knew better as most authors do. He wrote this book because this is exactly the book he'd like to read having busyness as one of his biggest problems. It was written because the author wants to figure out things and to work on change he has not yet seen. Crazy Busy is a very straightforward book on busyness. It presents three dangers to avoid, seven diagnoses to consider and one thing we must do. This is precisely the book we can relate much.
Having more opportunities than ever before and dealing with more and more complexities of this age, we are definitely living in a busy new world. The second chapter of the book discussed the important things we don't notice slipping away because of busyness.ln our everyday battle with busyness, our duty to serve is now replaced with our desire to survive. De Young reminds us that busyness' most serious threats are spiritual. It can ruin our joy, rob our hearts and it can also cover up the rot in our souls. Given a limited time, we tend to squeeze in as many things as possible in our schedules without realizing that it weighs more than what we can carry hence crushing us down, And with so much distractions and pre-occupations, more painful moments get wasted because we can't spare a minute to sit reflect and learn from them.
The third to ninth chapters presents seven diagnoses we need to consider. The following is an attempt to condense each.
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