The One Thing Necessary

“How we spend our days is of course how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour and that one is what we are doing.” As Annie Dillard insightfully points out, we must be very intentional about how we live day to day, and hour to hour. Especially in a time when our attention is pulled in so many directions and busyness tends to dominate (when we are “anxious and worried about many things”), we should learn to focus on the one thing necessary.