(Mark Hogan) The tornado of the “next big thing” is always swirling around us. There is always another program to practice, another conference to attend, another podcast to listen to, another book to read (or write!). There is always something someone is convincing us we need to be doing.
It is the tyranny of the next big thing and it is simply exhausting to keep up, isn’t it?
In such a culture, it is highly likely that we are doing so many things that we end up doing nothing well….
Perhaps the torrent of audio and visual media we have is actually making it very difficult to live the quiet but meaningful lives God calls us to. We spread our energies into so many channels from social media, to educational endeavors, to travel, to conferences—that we get caught in a web of perpetual preoccupation and never land to process and meditate before we’re off again.