Comments on: Distractions Extraordinaire http://pastorforlife.org/distractions-extraordinaire/ Tue, 31 Aug 2010 05:09:12 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Lauren http://pastorforlife.org/distractions-extraordinaire/comment-page-1/#comment-110 Lauren Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:29:52 +0000 http://pastorforlife.org/?p=56#comment-110 I had just started reading "Sacred Rhythmns" when you posted this the other day. It's a fantastic book. Lots of food for thought:) I had just started reading “Sacred Rhythmns” when you posted this the other day. It’s a fantastic book. Lots of food for thought:)

]]> By: Jan Owen http://pastorforlife.org/distractions-extraordinaire/comment-page-1/#comment-108 Jan Owen Sat, 11 Oct 2008 22:32:13 +0000 http://pastorforlife.org/?p=56#comment-108 Paul, Ruth is my retreat leader. You should read "Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership" - a perfect match for this blog. She is great and all her work is so insightful. Paul, Ruth is my retreat leader. You should read “Strengthening the Soul of Your Leadership” – a perfect match for this blog. She is great and all her work is so insightful.

]]> By: Paul http://pastorforlife.org/distractions-extraordinaire/comment-page-1/#comment-101 Paul Wed, 08 Oct 2008 14:57:35 +0000 http://pastorforlife.org/?p=56#comment-101 Bernie ... thanks for the input. I have found Twitter to be fun as long as one can keep it from being such a distraction. That can take work! Kim ... great insight and what a wise pulse you have on your own limits. You put words to my thoughts .... I too have only a limited ability to grasp and integrate it. Louie ... welcome to the conversation, and I appreciate your participation that will help us all integrate this stuff into our lives and ministry paths! Bernie … thanks for the input. I have found Twitter to be fun as long as one can keep it from being such a distraction. That can take work!

Kim … great insight and what a wise pulse you have on your own limits. You put words to my thoughts …. I too have only a limited ability to grasp and integrate it.

Louie … welcome to the conversation, and I appreciate your participation that will help us all integrate this stuff into our lives and ministry paths!

]]> By: LouieD http://pastorforlife.org/distractions-extraordinaire/comment-page-1/#comment-100 LouieD Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:49:20 +0000 http://pastorforlife.org/?p=56#comment-100 Putting down my iPhone... taking the earbuds out of my ears... leaving the laptop in a safe place... making eye contact... listening to the end of what you're saying, without thinking up a response while you're talking... being where I am, fully, completely engaged, present. Yeah. I hear what you're talking about... Putting down my iPhone… taking the earbuds out of my ears… leaving the laptop in a safe place… making eye contact… listening to the end of what you’re saying, without thinking up a response while you’re talking… being where I am, fully, completely engaged, present.

Yeah. I hear what you’re talking about…

]]> By: Kim http://pastorforlife.org/distractions-extraordinaire/comment-page-1/#comment-99 Kim Mon, 06 Oct 2008 04:18:09 +0000 http://pastorforlife.org/?p=56#comment-99 In the last few months the thing I have been seeking God for most of all is a restored rhythm. It isn't the technological distractions that have sapped my energy and seeped in to corrode my sense of synchronicity with the divine, rather it is the pace at which I am expected to perform for which that technology was created. It doesn't really help. Though I have unlimited information at my fingertips, I have a limited ability to grasp and integrate it, though I have continuous connectivity in audio visual availability, I have a need to turn off and tune out in order to be still and know who is God. I know they are simply tools to increase my capacity to communicate and effectively expand productivity...and I use them...but there are days when I feel used by them or becauseof them. On those days, I lay them down and sit down face to face with myself, my God, or an "other". It returns me to my humanity and reminds me I am not alone. In the last few months the thing I have been seeking God for most of all is a restored rhythm. It isn’t the technological distractions that have sapped my energy and seeped in to corrode my sense of synchronicity with the divine, rather it is the pace at which I am expected to perform for which that technology was created. It doesn’t really help. Though I have unlimited information at my fingertips, I have a limited ability to grasp and integrate it, though I have continuous connectivity in audio visual availability, I have a need to turn off and tune out in order to be still and know who is God.

I know they are simply tools to increase my capacity to communicate and effectively expand productivity…and I use them…but there are days when I feel used by them or becauseof them. On those days, I lay them down and sit down face to face with myself, my God, or an “other”. It returns me to my humanity and reminds me I am not alone.

]]> By: Bernie http://pastorforlife.org/distractions-extraordinaire/comment-page-1/#comment-94 Bernie Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:24:46 +0000 http://pastorforlife.org/?p=56#comment-94 I agree - my wife HATES my Crackberry and it has become an addiction. The loss of relationships and deep conversations (face to face and heart to heart) and the drain on my creative abilities are very evident the more I spend time or waste time doing technology or should I say it doing me. Twitter (no offense Paul) is a bizzare piece of technology and a few of the pastors and leaders I tracked felt it important to say: Going into Starbucks - got my laptop. Getting a haircut, eating a burrito." I signed up and said - no, I don't follow any Twitterites, just trying to follow Jesus and follow the demands of life and ministry and growing responsibilities. Can you say PEN and PAPER? PS: I just received some written notes in the past few months, the most I have received in ages. I think pen and paper are making a come back.....you see the writing and realize a person did that, the heart comes through the page........I am doing more pen and paper notes and people are commenting.....how NUEVO it is........yeah, retro is Nuevo. I agree – my wife HATES my Crackberry and it has become an addiction. The loss of relationships and deep conversations (face to face and heart to heart) and the drain on my creative abilities are very evident the more I spend time or waste time doing technology or should I say it doing me. Twitter (no offense Paul) is a bizzare piece of technology and a few of the pastors and leaders I tracked felt it important to say: Going into Starbucks – got my laptop. Getting a haircut, eating a burrito.” I signed up and said – no, I don’t follow any Twitterites, just trying to follow Jesus and follow the demands of life and ministry and growing responsibilities. Can you say PEN and PAPER?
PS: I just received some written notes in the past few months, the most I have received in ages. I think pen and paper are making a come back…..you see the writing and realize a person did that, the heart comes through the page……..I am doing more pen and paper notes and people are commenting…..how NUEVO it is……..yeah, retro is Nuevo.

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