Noise in the inbox!

I am trying to keep the noise down. I don't know if that is the case with you but I am sent dozens of emails, blogs, tweets (by the hundreds) every day. I just came back from a Soul Care Retreat and the noise in the inbox is keeping me from noticing God. So I am taking steps that will help me to notice God more and tune out the noise of technology that hammers at all of us everyday. I am working through a methodology much like I try to help pastors with. Focus only on one or two things that will help you achieve your personal goals and vision for following Jesus. I do tweet. But when I do I only have to do it once and it immediately goes to the CCN page on FB and my personal page all at the same time so I am only doing it once but it goes to three or four places that I think will have the biggest impact.
Every three months I go through my emails and see what is really helping me. You might have noteworthy email but if it isn't helping me I probably won't read you. Sorry. I also look at my own stuff to see that I am on target with CCN's values so that whatever I tweet it upholds and supports those values. I like many things and I am interested in many things and that is the challenge. I try to look at it from an eternal perspective as well.
Finally I want to be positive. How can you not be a child of God and not experience His joy? I want to celebrate the life he has blessed me with. I celebrate it many times through family, humor and working with pastors. It is where I find my truest contentment. I love God and I love serving him. Nothing else matters. So the noise has to go. I want to hear God and I want to remove any obstacle that will deter from that.
Have a great week!

I am very excited about next week. I am attending a Soul Care retreat. It is the first one for me. I have spent time alone with God on a regular basis but I have not done a spiritual "directed" retreat. I am going in wide open. The busyness of this world leaves much to be desired. This culture continually chips away and is a constant  competitor for time alone with God. I am hoping to gain new insights that will kindle in my heart a deeper discipline that will allow me to see it's value in a whole new light. When was the last time that you were moved so deeply that it changed your life? When did  you last see significant transformation? 

I need help. I cannot live this life on my own without God's help. I can but it would be empty. Fruitless. Futile. I am praying to ask God to move me to another whole new level in our relationship. But as I write this I wonder. "What would that really look like?" Only God knows. I am excited to be with other pastors and friends who also want to meet God in a new way. It should be a great week in experiencing God. Can't wait.