ivantable's review
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Just read Eugene Peterson’s essay (“Ambition: Lilies that Fester,”), which is chock full of pastoral insights: “I am busy because I am vain. I want to appear important. Significant. What better way than to be busy? The incredible hours, the crowded schedule, the heavy demands on my time are proof to myself—and to all who will notice—that I am important. . . . I live in a society in which crowded schedules and harassed conditions are evidence of importance, so I develop a crowded schedule and harassed conditions. When others notice, they acknowledge my significance, and my vanity is fed.”
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