As Christmas draws closer and closer and my schedule gets fuller and fuller, I\u2019ve been thinking about connection. While I try not use it as an excuse, I am a true introvert and would nine times out of ten prefer to be alone with a good book, a piano, or a typewriter. When I have so much to do, I wonder how much value I should put on connecting with friends. It could wait. It can always wait. But how much quality time will I miss if I wait? If I don\u2019t bother putting in the effort to pour into others? Because truly, it isn\u2019t about me. Connection with friends is about each other. It\u2019s about helping others through hard times and being there when they need it, being able to stop what I\u2019m doing and pray for someone because it\u2019s been a rough week. At the same time, I don\u2019t want to drain myself so much that I burn myself out. It\u2019s a fine line I must walk, and that\u2019s okay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Where am I going with this? I don\u2019t rightly know myself, but I\u2019ll try to tie this all together somehow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
When I reach the end of my life, I don\u2019t want to have spent valuable days, weeks, years on only myself when there were people hurting around me. I don\u2019t want to look back at my life and think, \u201cwow, I read more books than people I ministered to.\u201d I want to connect with and pour into my friends. Now that doesn\u2019t mean I\u2019m going to stop reading. I will still need my days to myself and my \u201crecharge time\u201d, as it has been dubbed, especially when my favourite author\u2019s newest book has just come out. But I will value others above myself.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As Christmas draws closer and closer and my schedule gets fuller and fuller, I\u2019ve been thinking about connection. While I try not use it as an excuse, I am a true introvert and would nine times out of ten prefer to be alone with a good book, a piano, or a typewriter…<\/p>\n