Communications Fast
As I type, I am off the grid. I woke up this morning with a new resolution, to take myself off the grid till noon on Wednesdays. So far I have been successful. But i won’t lie, it hasn’t been easy. My iphone is an awesome tool but it’s a curse as well. I am finding myself carrying a low grade fever at all times when I allow other people’s agendas to interfere with where I am trying to be fully present. It’s that little nagging sensation, “maybe something cool is happening somewhere else?” My son Chase plays with my old cell phone, a black motorola razor. Even last night i was thinking about that little phone and wondering how i survived without text messages, web browsers, twitter, facebook, linked-in, and a dozen other random ways to talk with people. What’s really crazy, i lived an entire 25 years of my life without even having a cell phone! So i am fasting; the e-mail clients are off, the cell phone is inactive, and the web browsers are shut down.
Now i am not one of those radicals, taking a complete digital fast. I am going to have to work up to this. But as i consider my time and the little i have to actually focus in and listen to God I am realizing all the great communications tools become a barrier between me and my first relationship. As I focus into pray. with my cell phone active, I am really just saying, “God I’m good spending time with you unless something better comes along.”