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Living Room - Episode 1: Always On Between your devices and services, there is almost nothing you don’t have access to and almost no one and no time that doesn't have access to you. That’s exciting - perhaps even indispensable during these stay-at-home months! There is another side of the coin, though. Experts say the constant messaging and accessibility is creating the most anxious, most lonely people ever. We’re talking Living Room again, diving into the good stuff we invite into our space only to be crowded out by it. Can we tame those things so there is space for your self in it all?

Episode 1: Always On

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Moses and “I am who I am”

Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the LORD appeared to him in a flame of fire out of a bush; he looked, and the bush was blazing, yet it was not consumed. Then Moses said, "I must turn aside and look at this great sight, and see why the bush is not burned up." When the LORD saw that he had turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, "Moses, Moses!" And he said, "Here I am." Then God said, "Come no closer! Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground." God said further,

"I am the God of your ancestors, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob." And Moses hid his face, for he was afraid to look at God.

Then the LORD said, "I have seen the misery of my people who are in Egypt;

I have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters...So come, I will send you to Pharoah to bring my people, the Israelites, out of Egypt.

But Moses said to God, "If I come to the Israelites and say to them, 'The God of your ancestors has sent me to you,' and they ask me, 'What is God’s name?' what shall I say to them?" God said to Moses, "I am who I am."   Exodus 3.1-7,10,13-14

If God is “I am who I am” then the question for me is, “am I who I am”?

How is this an answer to an Always On life?

  • It means your way out isn’t isolation.

  • It means your solution isn’t self-optimization.

  • It means you are not a to do list

You are enough. 

Living room is for you and for you to extend to others. 

Something to practice

If you have lived in the desert of isolation, self-optimization, or “to do” lists, face them and tell them you are whole without them. Repeat. Be you before you perform. 

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