Book Notes (Series)

Over the next few weeks, I'll be posting brief snippets from Randy Frazee's book, "Making Room for Life: Trading Chaotic Lifestyles for Connected Relationships." These will be brief thoughts from the book that I found particularly challenging and thought-provoking.

“Archibald Hart makes this wise observation: “Humans were designed for camel travel, but most people are now acting like supersonic jets. In a nutshell, most of us are living at too fast a pace…The pace of modern life is stretching all of us beyond our limits. And we are paying for this abuse in the hard and painful currency of stress and anxiety – plain and simple.” (72-73).


“The average American family simply isn’t home in the evenings anymore. By the time we’ve finished working, driving back home, carting children back and forth to their late-afternoon and evening events, shopping, or working out, there’s no time left for a full meal and meaningful conversations.” (77)

We were born with the need to unpack our day within a circle of people who know us and deeply care about us. When we exchange this kind of simple existence for a motion obsessed existence – which takes lots of discretionary money to pull off – new evils and new illnesses are birthed in our homes and in our bodies. Simply put, when our relationships are unbalanced, life doesn’t work.” (77)