TO HELL WITH THE HUSTLE

TO HELL WITH THE HUSTLE

TO HELL WITH THE HUSTLE

RECLAIMING YOUR LIFE IN AN OVERWORKED, OVERSPENT, AND OVERCONNECTED WORLD

JEFFERSON BETHKE

? 2019 Jefferson Bethke

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To Lucy, Kannon, and Kinsley I pray the way of Jesus continues to become your highest pursuit and ultimate treasure as you grow day by day.

Love, Dad

CONTENTS

A Time to Resist

1. We're Being Formed, Whether We Like It or Not 2. This Is Where It Was Always Headed 3. Music from Chaos 4. Why Silence Is So Loud 5. The Power of No 6. The Desert Gift 7. A Day of Resistance 8. Empathy

Epilogue: Where Do We Go from Here? Acknowledgments Notes About the Author

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A TIME TO RESIST

We were both on the couch. She was crying. Then I heard, "You should've married someone else!"

I stood and started pacing. "Are you serious right now?!" It's a question that has never helped a single marital situation since the dawn of humanity.

It's a tough thing to hear your wife say she wishes you had married someone else. It's even tougher when, for a second, you think she might be right.

We wouldn't be in this situation if I had. But I didn't want to marry anyone else. I believe Alyssa is God's gift and a physical representation of grace to me. In that moment, though, it sure felt like life would have been easier if I had married someone a little bit more like me. Why did she have to be so different? Nonetheless, here we were, married for four years, with a two-year-old and an infant sleeping in the other room, feeling like our lives were burdening us and weighing us down.

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