Focus. Gravity. Rhythm.

I’m an extrovert.  Not just outgoing but I get energy from being around others.  When I get down I want to strike up the grill and invite 50 friends over.  That’s energizing for me.  But…at some point even I get, as my wife calls it, “peopled out.”  Yesterday, after working most of the day at the cafe, hearing CNN headlines all flippin’ day (it makes me nervous) in the dining area, and knowing I was talking with the young people that night – I was getting overloaded.  So…I went to my office (everybody else was gone) and sat in complete silence for 30 minutes.  To some of you that seems like a long time…a whole sitcom you say?!  To some of you 30 min is not enough.  I didn’t pray really.  I didn’t sleep either.  I was so burned out on information and voices that I just sat and focused on Jesus.  Not the middle-eastern peasant wonder-worker (that was a long time ago) but the living, active, “what are you doing now” Jesus.  It was difficult actually b/c it’s easy to see Jesus as the bearded white guy with a robe and that’s hard to do away with.  But after 30 min I felt energized again.  I recommend it.