Caught Up in God

Out on a two-lane highway, Sister Elizabeth and I caught a glimpse of a sign that made us do a double-take. It was on the edge of a cemetery, a country churchyard, and on both sides it proclaimed the same message to passersby and the graves round about:
NOTHING IS AS
TIRESOME
AS DOING NOTHINGHad the cemetery residents [...]

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There seems to be a thriving internet market for posters, bumper stickers, lapel buttons, and refrigerator magnets emblazoned with the caption:
JESUS IS COMING
LOOK BUSYAs tongue-in-cheek as these may be, I fear that the “look busy” injunction taps into something deeply ingrained in the human (or at least the American) psyche. If we are not [...]

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