February E-Fast

I have been really enjoying my babymoon this past month, but my type-a self has a very hard time slowing down.  No surprise to those who know me, I know; but the truth is that I really do want (well, sort of want) to slow down – and need to slow down.  So, I’ll be taking a total ‘e-fast’ for the month of February.  No email, no online research, no social media…

This decision isn’t so much about having a newborn in the house, actually.  In many ways, the transition to life with four kids has been very easy.  But there is certainly no coincidence in the timing between baby #4 coming into our family and all that’s been going on in my heart and mind over the past year leading up to this point.

Here’s the deal…  Even though I sometimes try to grab the wheel and take control, what ultimately drives me in all that I do is the Lord.  What is He up to?  What does He want me to do at any given moment?  What’s my role and purpose in His bigger plan?  How can I best serve Him and the people He has put in my life?

Right now, I feel like He’s asking me to just sit down and be still for a while so I can draw closer to Him and get some direction.  There are too many open doors in front of me, and I cannot possibly walk through them all at once if I’m also going to be the wife and mom He wants me to be, so I really need His guidance.  But every time I get online or on email, my desire to research a huge variety of green and healthy living topics gets me stuck online for hours.  Although this desire to learn is God-given at its core and closely connected to what He’s doing in my life, everything has its time and season.  Right now, I’m strongly sensing the need to stop being Martha and spend some serious Mary time just sitting at God’s feet; I need to quiet my mind by staying offline for a while.

So, this post is to let folks know that you won’t be able to reach me by any online means until March 1.  You can still email or Facebook message me, but I won’t get it until March.

If you need or want to get in touch for any reason in February, please do feel free to call or text me.  For those of you who are clients, I am still committed to serving your needs during the month of February, but will do so by phone rather than by email this month.  And if there is any way that I can be praying for anyone during my e-fast, feel free to call or send prayer requests via text.

See you online in March!  🙂

Oh, and by the way…  Almost as if God really wanted to drive this ‘e-fast’ idea home to me…  My email experienced some sort of mysterious technical glitch last Thursday.  All my archived emails (which were numerous) and backlogged emails in my inbox from before January 2o-something just suddenly went POOF!  Totally disappeared and cannot be recovered.  If you had emailed me prior to January 27th and never heard back from me – I’m sorry but your email probably got zapped.  If it was important, please either call or text me, or email me again and I’ll respond in March.  🙂