Life Batteries . . .

We all have a battery supply of energy we live off of. It's the supply for us physically, emotionally, spiritually - every part of who we are.

It's good to have a battery that is fully (or at least more than half) charged. The energy is drained by activities, involvements, circumstances, events, experiences, people, being alone - by LIFE. Often it is recharged by some of the same things.

This is significant - What drains us and what recharges us varies from person to person . . .

Here are some things that recharge me . . .

• Operating in God's strength (instead of my own)
• Using God's unique spiritual gifts given to me in the specific ways He seems to have focused and developed them. For me that includes:

Leadership - Investing in, developing, and directing people to fulfill mission

Administration - organizing, developing systems, plans, and procedures to accomplish the mission

Exhortation - my speaking gift - knowing, expressing and explaining God's Word

• Seeing God-intitiated life change - tranformed lives by God's grace - I never tire hearing of stories of peoples lives
• Seeing teams form, build, and be used by God
• Time alone - especially if I can quiet myself enough to listen
• Praying with others - I am always recharged by this - I have built "mini prayer meetings" into my life with consistent people - Tuesdays, Saturdays, Sundays. I am so much more effective in prayer with others than alone
• EVEE - Did you know I have a grandaughter?
• Hugs and smiles
• Hiking, volleyball, reading, riding my scooter
• Time with Gwen. Time with friends

You might be asking - So, what drains me? Or, So what do you do as a result of knowing this?

That's for another entry . . .