MARY'S PLACE

ARE YOU TOO BUSY? EVER TRIED THIS?... We live in a busy world. I felt this way as I was cleaning our house. You know that domestic work that goes on and on. One day, a memory of my past came to mind, I had to clean on Saturday, which my mother had us do when we were children. She would say, "You can't go out to play until you help clean this house." We would scurry around, hurrying up to release us from our assigned task.  Recently, I was doing my Saturday Clean Day list, and I realized it never ends unless you stop. One thing leads to another. I felt like one of those robot floor cleaners that almost ran over me at a QuickTrip; I ran inside to pay for my gas, and as I turned around to leave, one of those scary robot things stopped at my feet just in time. The recording said Thank you for stopping, so I can clean. I thought, 'What a busy world it is, cleaning itself and will never stop.' Back to my thought, the antidote to this madness, my topic question, "Ha...