The morality of busy-ness

Busy-ness is the state of having a long and ever growing list of things to do. The list is so long that “you have no time to stand and stare”. But this is perhaps a good thing as “the devil finds work for idle hands to do”.

But then again "the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt." (Book of Isaiah 57:20). So “there is no rest for the wicked”. 

So busy-ness is not a good thing – it muddies the waters? 

But still-ness is a good thing – the mud settles and there is clarity?

“Don’t just do something, sit there.”