Jesus says to his disciples in our Gospel lesson for this weekend, "Come away to a deserted place all by yourselves and rest a while." (Mark 6:31)  In that simple request, Jesus sets the tone for the importance of finding a time and a place for solitude with our Heavenly Father as well as for connecting with those who are most important to us. In the busyness and schedule-oriented lives that we all lead, one of the most graphic expressions of our problem is what John Ortberg refers to as "Hurry Sickness." He uses the definition from psychologist Meyer Friedman, "a continuous struggle and unremitting attempt to accomplish or achieve more and more things or participate in more and more events in less and less time, frequently in the face of opposition, real or imagined, from other persons." (Chapter 6 - p. 78 The Life You've Always Wanted) The most serious of sign of "hurry sickness" is a diminished capacity to love because love and hurry are fundamentally incompatible.  Love always takes time, and time is one thing hurried people don't have!  Want to find out more?  Take "the time" to join us for worship this weekend at St. John's!