More Love, Less Hustle

There is no fear in love. But perfect love drives out fear.

—1 John 4:18

This year is the year of more love, less hustle.

When I say hustle, what I mean is that voice that tells you to get up off the couch as soon as you sit down for even a second. That voice that says with these ten minutes you should be able to accomplish these seventy-six things. That voice that says you’re never done, you have to push harder, think ahead, plan ahead, hold it together, go, go, go.

Hustle isn’t about your job, necessarily, or my job, necessarily. I know people who work more than I do, longer than I do, with a lot more success and pressure, and they don’t hustle. And I know people who have very few demands on their time or very little financial pressure or whatever, and they’re always, always hustling.

It’s about your to-do list, but more than that it’s about what it is inside you that made you sign up for all that.

I’ve said no to some big and small things in this season—so hard for me to say, of course, for a million reasons. But saying no lets me say yes to those I love: my husband, my boys, our family and community, our church.