Two of my favorite all-time episodes of The Andy Griffith Show are "Man in a Hurry" and "The Sermon for Today." Both episodes take you on a tour of a typical Sunday, our designated day of rest, disrupted by unreasonable endeavors, and the mayhem, distress, and personal clashes that always makeup the fallout of such untimely activity. We laugh because we've been there. How many times have we overloaded ourselves on holidays, vacations and weekends, and wound up ten times more exhausted than when we began? The humor lies in the irony -- in trying to power-pack our leisure time, the way we do the rest of our schedules, we completely sabotage our own efforts. We turn our "down time" into just another version of our "up time" -- multi-tasking, scheduling, hurrying, exerting....exhausting! As women, we tend to guilt-trip ourselves about resting. Resting isn't loafing. When Proverbs 31 talks about how the ideal woman doesn't indulge in i
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