In e-mail withdrawal

I had an interesting experience last week. My wife and I helped my sister in law do some painting in her recently purchased house. We stayed at her house for 5 nights and painted, painted, painted! But, she didn't have a phone so I was offline for 5 days.

Actually, it wasn't too bad. Now, I had 200 emails waiting for me when I got back, but fortunately there were almost no Donor Manager tech support requests pending, which was nice.

But, it did take me a few days to get caught up.

It reminds me of a time in Kenya when our phone went out for 3 weeks. I think we got more done, ministry wise, in those 3 weeks with no phone than any other time. No email, no fax, no cell phone, just blissful quiet.