Unplugged

I unplugged last week.  No internet or email.  No cell phone.  No TV. 

Reality entertainment was watching the storm come over the top of the mountain.  It was watching the many deer in the knee high grass surrounding the cabin.  Reality entertainment was joking with my daughters over Farkle (the real game with dice and not the electronic façade), Yahtzee, and Skip-bo.  It was the short snowball fight at the top of the mountain.  Reality entertainment was flipping a canoe in the river and hiking back to the cabin.  It was sitting with my wife in complete awe mesmerized by a powerful waterfall roaring down the mountains from melting snow. 

We read books.  We hiked. We laughed.

In a world where news is old 30 minutes after it occurs we can be distracted in an instant with texts, calls, posts, and videos.  We can be distracted from fulfilling what we are called to do thinking that we have to know everything.   

Can you unplug more frequently and be content with what is needed and not what is available? I am going to try.