Balancing Work

Balancing Work

President Uchtdorf on being "Busy - Added by Matt 7/1/2015

President Uchtdorf said in 2013:

"Perhaps the most universal regret dying patients expressed was that they wished they had spent more time with the people they love.

"Men in particular sang this universal lament: they “deeply regretted spending so much of their lives on the [daily] treadmill of … work.”³ Many had lost out on choice memories that come from spending time with family and friends. They missed developing a deep connection with those who meant the most to them.

Isn’t it true that we often get so busy? And, sad to say, we even wear our busyness as a badge of honor, as though being busy, by itself, was an accomplishment or sign of a superior life.

Is it?

I think of our Lord and Exemplar, Jesus Christ, and His short life among the people of Galilee and Jerusalem. I have tried to imagine Him bustling between meetings or multitasking to get a list of urgent things accomplished. I can't see it!"

Work is not who I am. If it is I am greatly underestimating my divine potential. Shouldn't I hold being a father to 6 kids significantly higher than being a teacher to 180? I work to support my family. If my work has a positive by-product for society it should never take  more prominent role in my life than a merely a job. That is all!