Article June 15, 1998 Issue

Days full of wholeness, not just busyness

Let God determine your list of priorities.

By Ellen Moore Thompson

It was the busiest time of year. Meeting fellow administrators and wives at the third or fourth school activity that weekend (spread over two campuses miles apart), we smiled understandingly at each other. I found myself blurting out, "It's all one big blur, isn't it!" Immediately, however, I heard these words come clearly to my thought: "No, it's one big integrated whole."

I liked the thought of "integrated whole." I felt that this idea came to me from God, the source of all intelligence. The very word integrated speaks to me of God's nature, of unity, wholeness. Without division in it, the day that belongs to God can only unfold harmony. It's a pressureless, natural flow from one good activity to another that lifts us above the sense of busyness and rests us in the unlabored action of God. We see the fruit of His doing unfolding moment by moment.

Believing that we are caught up in a whirlwind of activity that has helplessly sucked us into unmanageable busyness can leave us breathless. But this is not the actual essence of life; it's a misconception that's corrected as we understand more of our real nature. We are the intelligent expressions of God, manifesting His wholeness. This spiritual fact, embraced in thought, brings order and rest into our experience. Instead of being mortals desperately laboring to do the best we can, we are individual expressions of the one great I am. So every effort to show forth good, every Christlike, loving endeavor, every hint of harmony, every symbol of beauty and grace, is actually God's manifesting of Himself.

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