When Was the Last Time You Defragged?

A new book that I am very excited about reading arrived, The Forgotten Way, by Alan Hirsch, author and specialist on missions. The "Forward," written by Leonard Sweet, caught my attention.

He notes how computer hard drives over time become scrambled by random data that is placed in various places on the disk. The result is that the computer will slow down and eventually can crash if not addressed. He writes concerning Christianity and the book,

Christianity has undergone untold crashed and clashes in the past two thousand years. In the last five hundred years its original hard drive has wiped out so many times, especially in the West, that it has almost ground to a halt. In The Forgotten Ways, a voice from the place that gets to the future first has provided twenty-first-century Christianity with the best disk defragger available.

I intend to blog from time to time on this book as I read through it, but for now I want to focus on his metaphor of defragging. It is an apt metaphor for a 24/7 world. At the speed at which we live, our hard drives become confused with data scattered over various parts of the disc where they don't belong, and if we continue at the break neck speeds at which we live, sooner or later we slow down and in some cases break down.

When did you last carve out some time to defrag your own life and/or your families life? How would you go about defragging your life in the first place? I suspect that the six marks of discipleship--daily prayer, weekly worship, daily bible reading, service, spiritual friendships, and generosity--are ways that we defrag our lives. Do you have any suggestions about ways to defrag our lives?