Every day was a daily sacrifice for Leonard and Nancy Myers as they struggled to keep their son Shawn alive. Shawn suffered from the crippling affects of muscular dystrophy and pneumonia. With no income, and doctor bills piling up, the Myers discovered tragic news: Nancy was pregnant.

Many times we don't experience the joys of life as fully as we can because we're too wrapped up in the busy-ness and daily-ness of life. With so many conflicting complications tearing at the framework of our lives, is it any wonder we sometimes long to escape to a desert island and experience a little bit of that refreshing, slower-paced "island" time?

The assumption seems to be, if you're home with your children full-time you must be rolling in piles of money. Common urban folk-lore unsettles us with the "fact" that it will cost over three hundred thousand dollars to raise each child to adulthood.  Deborah Taylor-Hough, author of A Simple Choice: A Practical Guide for Saving Your Time, Money and Sanity, shares some simple tips she's learned over the years for living on a single income.

Over the years I have discovered that most people travel through life with unfinished business that acts as unnecessary baggage. Many are not aware that what they’ve experienced would be classified as a loss. Some try to ignore the loss, only to discover residual implanted in their heart and mind.  Even when a loss is recognized, most people do not know what to do to recover; we are a generation that has not been taught how to grieve. And family life is full of losses.

Get busy! Get moving! Get on that frenetic treadmill. Nothing robs the peace and joy from a Christian's life more than constant busyness. That busyness for the Christian may be veiled as some superspiritual drive for excellence, some kind of way to work out our salvation.