 So it seems in life we get busier and busier, busier with work, busy with school, busy with kids. But does all that business really make us happy? Research would say no. There's a story I want to share with you that maybe will help focus a little bit on what's really important in life. And the story goes like this. It was once a very strong woodcutter and he asked for a job cutting down trees. The pay was really good and the benefits were not too bad. So he determined that he was going to do a great job. So he went to his boss, his boss gave him the axe, showed him where to chop down the trees and he went at it. The first day he fell to 18 trees. Felt pretty good, pretty proud of himself. Told the boss, boss was happy. The next day the woodcutter went out and he chopped down 15 trees. Not bad, not as good as the first day, still pretty well accomplished day. The next day the woodcutter went out and he was only able to chop down 10 trees. He started to think to himself, maybe there's something wrong with me. Maybe I'm losing some of my strength. Not sure what's going on. So he went to the boss, the boss said to the woodcutter, well when's the last time you sharpen your axe? Woodcutter said sharpen my axe. I haven't had time to sharpen my axe, I've been too busy cutting down trees. Abraham Lincoln once said, give me six hours to chop down a tree and I'll spend the first four sharpening the axe. We get so busy sometimes that we forget to slow down, we forget to sharpen our axe. Being busy doesn't necessarily make us happier. Why is that? Could it be that we've forgotten how to stay sharp? There's nothing wrong with activity, there's nothing wrong with hard work, there's nothing wrong with being busy, but we should never get so busy that we neglect the truly important things in life, in our personal life, by taking time to get close to our creator, giving more time to our family, taking time to read, learn a new skill. We all need time to relax, to think and to meditate if we're going to learn and grow. If we don't take the time to sharpen our axe, we'll become dull and we'll lose our effectiveness.