{"id":355,"date":"2009-08-12T15:56:42","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T21:56:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/?p=355"},"modified":"2009-08-13T14:43:16","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T20:43:16","slug":"books-on-busyness-and-restoring-rest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/books-on-busyness-and-restoring-rest\/","title":{"rendered":"Books on Busyness and Restoring Rest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Sunday&#8217;s sermon, Ryan mentioned the book <a title=\"The Overload Syndrome\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1576831310\/desesprichur-20\" target=\"_blank\"><em>The Overload Syndrome<\/em><\/a>, by Richard Swenson.\u00c2\u00a0 This book is about identifying and combating overactivity, overcommitment, busyness, and stress &#8212; all of which have become the norm for the average American. Swenson writes from a Christian perspective and from his expertise in the medical field. His erarlier book on the same topic, <a title=\"Margin\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/1576836827\/desesprichur-20\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Margin<\/em><\/a>, is also very helpful.\u00c2\u00a0Also instructive on this topic is Charles Hummel&#8217;s now-classic booklet\u00c2\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0830865926\/desesprichur-20\">Tyranny of the Urgent<\/a>.<\/em>\u00c2\u00a0But perhaps less well known is the full-book-length version,\u00c2\u00a0<a title=\"Freedom From the Tyranny of the Urgent\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0830812873\/desesprichur-20\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Freedom from the Tyranny of the Urgent<\/em><\/a>. May these books help you to restore a restful schedule!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Sunday&#8217;s sermon, Ryan mentioned the book The Overload Syndrome, by Richard Swenson.\u00c2\u00a0 This book is about identifying&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/2009\/08\/books-on-busyness-and-restoring-rest\/\">Continue Reading &rsaquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[43,39,41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355\/revisions\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.desertspringschurch.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}