What Stops You From Re-charging?

Let me begin by saying that these thoughts aren’t entirely my own.  Instead, I was absolutely inspired by the message at church this week, particularly in the context of the children’s message (let’s face it, I’m a kid at heart).  The minister picked up his cell phone and showed it to the kids, then proceeded to talk about the myriad of uses and applications available to him and how he finds it a useful tool most of the time.  He then shared with the children the fact that sometimes the darn thing doesn’t work — it runs out of power — and he noted that, while it’s tempting to throw it out, in actual fact all the phone needs is to be recharged.  His exact words were, “there’s nothing wrong with the phone, it just needs to recharge”.  The parallel to our daily lives wasn’t lost on me.

How often do you find yourself in a position where you feel like things just aren’t working anymore?  It’s hard to think, hard to focus, you’re making mistake after mistake, your body feels unwell, etc;.  While you may be tempted to throw in the towel — quit your job, take some meds — how might it serve you to “recharge” instead?  And what would recharging look like for you?  Given the hectic pace of the society we live in, I assert that downtime, quiet time, recharge time feels elusive, and so it behooves each of us to make it happen of our own volition.  It really is important to carve out time and space — daily time and space — to just be and let your body restore itself.  And this is about more than daily sleep.  This is about awake time, where you’re doing NOTHING.  Just recharging.  It may seem like a novel indulgence.  And I assert that it’s an ancient necessity that’s gotten lost along the way.  It’s time to find it and reclaim it.  And that’s exactly what I challenge you to do.