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Following just over a month of this\u00a0self-imposed near-total break from my online life<\/a> (obviously not including my paid work!)\u00a0what have I discovered?<\/p>\n

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  1. WordPress\u2019s auto-publish feature is bullet-proof and a real gift<\/strong>\n<\/li>
  2. You hardly missed me <\/strong>as a result of 1. and my kind guest bloggers. Indeed, traffic remained pretty high considering it was August.<\/li>\n
  3. Phil Moore is better than I am<\/strong> at explaining\u00a0why digital fasts are so important<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  4. A week is definitely not long enough<\/a><\/strong> It took me much longer before I even began to experience digital withdrawal symptoms.<\/li>\n
  5. It really is hard to stay away from the Internet for several weeks.<\/strong> My \u201cfast\u201d wasn\u2019t total as the weeks drew on. I did scan-read Twitter, Facebook and a couple of blogs a little towards the end. I also started to write this post 20 minutes or so before my deadline, \u00a0and last week even wrote a couple of tweets ready for publishing later when my wife had gone away (the observant may have noticed that they appeared in my Twitter stream and were quickly deleted!) I also and scanned and deleted most of my accumulated emails on the same day. Finally, I started an Omnifocus to-do list<\/a> to capture a small handful of ideas for things to blog about when they began to hit me about a week or so ago.<\/li>\n
  6. The harsh truth is that I really don\u2019t care about what my readers think about me as much as I thought I did<\/strong> (despite 5) \u00a0 I trust I will continue to remember this and make sure that I take more care over being kind to my wife and children than I do over looking after you all! \u00a0Funily enough, I somehow suspect that the more I focus on pleasing my God and family, the more benefit I may be to you in any case.<\/li>\n
  7. Learning more about how to not believe your own publicity<\/strong> is a vital result of such a break. \u00a0I can\u2019t improve on what I said about this last year.<\/a> Running a blog can appear to be self-serving at first glance. There has to be a good balance, however, between arrogantly pushing oneself forward, and on the other hand hiding whatever one can share with others under a bushel. \u00a0I am not sure I always navigate that tightrope entirely correctly, but, you have to believe me that I know that of myself I have nothing to offer you. \u00a0I will not ever apologize for shouting about my savior, and his death and resurrection for us.\u00a0I know that if I can point you towards him, and to good resources that will help you in your spiritual journey I will have fulfilled one of the roles that God has for me in this life. \u00a0It is not the most important one, however. \u00a0That is clearly being a husband and father, which is much harder than helping at least some of people who read this blog for a few minutes a day.<\/li>\n
  8. I remained really quite busy <\/strong>with secular work, preached three times, was on the radio once, and yet removing the digital piece resulted in me now feeling remarkably rested and refreshed. I may need to find some ways to lessen some of the burdens I carry. \u00a0Perhaps I need a secretary or something!<\/li>\n
  9. Just hanging out with the kids <\/strong>in the evenings watching TV, playing Scrabble & Risk with them on the iPad, and being beaten at chess by my 11 year old son is a whole lot of fun. I need to carve out more time to do this better even with the blog up and running. If I could be a better husband and father and a worse blogger that would be fine with me.<\/li>\n
  10. Having a break has made me itch to write again<\/strong>, and I have really enjoyed writing this post. \u00a0I won\u2019t be giving up permanently any time soon!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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