A packed schedule doesn’t impress God. A present heart does.

Busyness is easy to mistake for devotion because it is visible and it is exhausting, both of which feel like evidence. A schedule can be full of good things and still be a way of avoiding attention, which is harder and quieter than activity. Presence cannot be scaled up by adding commitments.

Look at your week and find one thing you are doing mostly to be seen doing it, then take it off. Use the gap for something undocumented: prayer, a conversation, silence. Judge the week by whether you were actually there for any of it.