{"id":8197,"date":"2026-09-30T21:07:52","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T02:07:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=8197"},"modified":"2026-09-30T21:07:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T02:07:53","slug":"busier-than-ever-why-more-expected-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=8197","title":{"rendered":"BUSIER THAN EVER &#8211; WHY ? &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; MORE EXPECTED &#8211; WHY ?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In this current age of overloaded schedules, we are called upon to add and include just a little more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sometimes spoken, sometimes unspoken&#8212;we are supposed to organize and prioritize, so we can take on more and keep up.<br>Keep up with what ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Keep up with one more new insight, read one more new book, listen to one more new teaching you can&#8217;t do without.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;If it&#8217;s new, it&#8217;s not true.&#8221;<br>&#8212;&#8211;David Jeremiah<br>(I don&#8217;t remember the context of his comment, but it sure expresses the frustration and skepticism of too many ideas sweeping over the masses like a tsunami.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What&#8217;s new ?<br>Got to talk about it.<br>Got to try it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Now all the Athenians and foreigners who lived there spent their time doing nothing more than hearing and articulating new ideas.&#8221; Acts 17:21<br>You will do well to read the whole chapter, when Paul makes the most of their search&#8212;Jesus is what you&#8217;re looking for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this current age of overloaded schedules, we are called upon to add and include just a little more. Sometimes spoken, sometimes unspoken&#8212;we are supposed to organize and prioritize, so we can take on more and keep up.Keep up with what ? Keep up with one more new insight, read one more new book, listen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2,8,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-faith_based","category-movie-review","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8197"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8197"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8198,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8197\/revisions\/8198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}