! ! Business And Busyness

‘I’m very busy at the moment; but I’ll look forward to reading your message when I have more time…’ yeah yeah… oh you ‘busy’ ones – I’m on to you… tell me that it’s not because you’re ‘busily’ maintaining a self-important picture of yourself– (a picture based on fear?): tell me that it’s not because it’s your deceitful way to ‘prioritise’ what you want to give yourself to, and that which you don’t… ‘Occupied’; ‘constantly active’ – that sounds a little better, a little more impersonal - there’s hope for you… But don’t we all love – love them, even before we meet – those (you know them?) who seem, miraculously, to ‘have time’ for everyone – by appointment; or in emergency; how do they manage it? Can it be, they know the measures of the human heart that make of time and space this lovely art?