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This morning as I was driving home from running with Back On My Feet, I was noticing how many people were driving with one hand while looking at their phones in the other. 

How do they do that? I mean, I know how I do it, I just don’t know how they do. Ya know? 

It made me wonder if texting and driving at the same time was really possible. I mean when you’re texting, are you actually driving? Surprisingly and frighteningly, the answer is “yes.” If your foot is on the gas (or brake) with at least part of a hand on the steering wheel while projecting forward sitting in the driver’s seat of an automobile, you are by definition “driving.” 

This actually concerns me when it comes to life in general. 

How many things are we “doing” but not really doing?

Marriages.

Parenting.

Church.

Faith.

Work.

Our bodies go through the motions but our minds are absent. 

Our presence is fleeting. Shifting. Jumping from one point to the next, never perpetually engaging with any one activity.

If our presence is fleeting, perhaps so is the state of our souls?

Yes.

There is no rest for a soul in flux. 

And that, by definition, is the opposite of God’s shalom—His desire for wholeness, rest, and peace in the hearts of men & women.