My job gets my best hours and my family gets whatever is left over. How do I get the balance back without losing my income?

“There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.”

The Preacher describes a man with no family and no heir who still works relentlessly and never stops to ask who he is doing it for. It is one of the bleakest short portraits in the Bible, and it is aimed squarely at successful people. The question it forces is not how much you work but who your work is actually for.

“And he said unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while: for there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.”

This comes at the busiest point in Mark's Gospel: the disciples return from a demanding mission, the crowds press in, and there is no time even to eat. Jesus responds by taking them away to rest. He does not wait for demand to drop off, because it never does. He interrupts the work himself and treats rest as part of the job.