Standing on the precipice

We’re days away from our lives changing forever. In fact, Camille could come today. Who knows. One thing I do know, thanks to many sojourners ahead looking back to distill their wisdom, is that things will be very different from now on. Our values will change completely, reordered, upside down. What was once important becomes suddenly unimportant. What was once trivial becomes an obsession. I’m looking forward to that, to having a reset to make the main things the main things.

Last night at book club, our parent friends described how quickly you go through a transformation when you become a parent. We were discussing John Mark Comer’s The Ruthless Elimination of Hurry, how “hurry is not of the devil—hurry is the devil.” It is an enemy of the spiritual life.

Having a baby forces you to slow down and attend to something very inefficient, something whose every breath depends on you for survival. That will make you reprioritize your day, your life, rather quickly, and I can’t wait for that. Forced Sabbath.