Hanging It Up... For a While

This week I took my quarterly white day. For those of you unfamiliar with the concept, a white day is when you retreat from all the noise in order to think, create, cast vision or - in my case - seek God's vision and God's voice. No e-mail. No cell phone. And most of all, no social media.

I do this periodically because my soul needs it. And so does my ministry. Other voices become more prominent than God's; so getting away affords me the opportunity to listen on a level I rarely do. You see, we rarely need to give God permission to speak. I find He often is... Instead, we need to give ourselves permission to listen to Him and no one else.

So this past Tuesday I shut it all down. I read. I studied. I prayed. I listened. I was still. And it was beautiful. I felt the return of a connection with Him that, honestly, had grown dim. And so I decided to stretch out that time a little longer and honestly, the experience has been so refreshing that I'm thinking of hanging up social media permanently. No Twitter. No Blog.

A multitude of counselors is great. Necessary, even. I get that. But I don't think social media qualifies in that regard. If I am truly desperate to hear from God, then I need to show Him I am willing to be still and listen...

Here's to listening... to Him.