Interruption Is the Point

We keep waiting for a clear schedule, but God tends to work with the day we actually have.

It’s easy to think that real life begins once the interruptions stop. Once the inbox clears, once things settle down, then we will finally become the sort of person we keep meaning to become.

C.S. Lewis saw through this with characteristic bluntness: “Stop regarding all the unpleasant things as interruptions of one’s ‘own,’ or ‘real’ life. The truth is of course that what one calls the interruptions are precisely one’s real life—the life God is sending one day by day.”

Now, that doesn’t mean every interruption is equal. Your phone buzzing because someone on the internet has decided to be wrong again is not the voice of God. Guard your attention. Refuse the fake urgencies.

But not every demand on your attention is a distraction. The interruptions aren’t keeping you from your real life. They are your real life.