Sunday afternoon the Intermediate Sunday school class will be singing for Mrs. Miller. Besides, Dad, the oil needs to be changed in the station wagon, the kitchen faucet has been leaking for two weeks, the garden should be tilled, and your study hasn't been cleaned for three weeks because you said you didn't want things disturbed until you have sorted through the clutter. Many things could be said about this kind of lifestyle, its causes and its consequences. Let's just note two observations. He doesn't want to be.
Nerves are tight and tempers are short.
It shows up in the level of communication between husband and wife - or lack of it. While we are running here and there, we are communicating something other than our faith. The things we do and the places we go are not bad. They may be very good. But meanwhile, family cohesiveness is lost.