Recharge

Lately I’ve felt heavy on task and low on heart.

I’m sure you never feel that way. I’m sure if you’re a mom, you never feel like you barely have a minute to yourself. I’m sure you never feel like getting in your car and just driving, and driving, and driving away.

And I don’t think moms are the only ones who feel that way. If you’re a professional single gal, I’m sure you never feel like you could use a day off, or a week off, or even a month off.

I’m the kind of person that needs a lot of personal time to recharge. There’s this question on eharmony. It’s in phase 1 of the dating cycle. Don’t ask how I know that, but I do. It asks: when in a relationship, how much personal time do you need? The answers come in multiple choices, with the most extreme one stated a little like this: When I’m with my partner I’m completely there, but I do need considerable time for personal reflection.

Mind you nobody really picks that answer – no one single that is. The idea is to get the guy to think you’re going to want to be with him a lot. Most people who feel like picking option “d” just pick option “c”, which says: as long as I can get one night a week to myself, my personal space needs are met.

They figure that’s close enough not to scare the guy away. After all, what’s the point of dating if you need lots of personal time?

Regardless, I thrive on personal time of quiet and solitude and reflection.

Unfortunately, getting in a car and driving away is not an option right now – at least not a realistic option. So what do you do when you feel you can’t think anymore? What do you do when your brain is on overdrive, and you’re about to get a one way ticket to Australia? What do you do when the idea of talking to one other human being, including your 2 year old nagging tot, is about to drive you off the edge of sanity?

You go for a walk.

No, wait, you can’t leave your 2 year old tot home alone.

So you go in your closet and shut the door for a minute.

In other words, you do what you can. You take five any way you can. You work from home. You cancel dinner plans. You bypass that movie, or you go because the lights are off and you don’t have to talk to anyone. You make choices that help you regroup. You spend that extra money on a babysitter instead on a new pair of shoes, and you cocoon yourself alone giving yourself enough time to recharge.

In Luke 6:12 it says that “in these days he went out to the mountain to pray, and all night he continued in prayer to God.”

For Jesus, sometimes getting alone with God required skipping out on sleep.

Do what you can, but at all cost, recharge.

And somewhere out there is a man who equally values his time alone. If that’s you, you know where to find me!

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