Feeling Guilty

I was feeling guilty today about sitting on my couch, Dalton on the couch next to me, and doing nothing except keeping up with the laundry. How sad is it that I feel guilty taking time to just be? Something about that guilt seemed very wrong to me. We live in a culture where it's normal to respond to someone who asks how you're doing by saying, busy. I think that's too bad. I enjoyed my time with Dalton today. I enjoyed the fact that we sat together in our quiet home and let our bodies have some down time. For me personally, it is important to have time away from people and rejuvenate for the week, so I don't want to feel guilty about it.  I think we should start a new way of living, spending time with the people we love and not doing anything to keep us "busy". What would it look like to just be with your loved ones? I've been doing that with Jesus and it's been really good for that relationship.  I would say the same would be true for all of our relationships. I'm going to focus on the quality of just being, rather than the guilt of not doing.