Margins: Setting Priorities in Life

In a book called Margins, written by Dr. Swanson, he talks about how many people live on the Margins or living a marginless life, a life that is out of balance. He talks about how busy life has become, how progress and progression have their plusses. Still, it also has its minuses because we have misplaced our priorities on what should really be important and what should really matter.

And oftentimes, we place more value on tangible things. Things we can measure, things we can see, feel, touch instead of intangible things, that are really of telltale sign of what is going on in us, like how I feel, the pain I am experiencing, the inner struggle for control.

You see, a marginless life, a life too busy to enjoy life, is directly related to life too busy to enjoy the inner life.

Peace within helps us deal with the interruptions and distractions without. It allows us to know the difference when more is better and when more is worse. Let us look at our Margins and how we can set the right priorities to ensure our lives is not one lived out on edge, ready to fall over the cliff of trying to keep up with a plethora of things that keeps on coming., wave after wave, trying to drown out the person God called you to be and to have the peace He called you to live.