Yesterday I worked from 8am to 4:45am. It was planned that we work late ‘after hours’, but I don’t think my director and I realized it would be almost 5am before leaving. We basically took apart our data center and re-cabled the entire thing – network cables, power cables, intercom cables that looked like McGyver put them together, everything. Though the work was tiring, the result was a very organized and neat data center.
Needless to say, I was exhausted Friday at work. Yes, I was back at work 4 hours later. I did leave a little early and came home and crashed for about an hour. Fast forward to Friday night. I’m working on something for work – basically I just have to check on it every 20 minutes or so to make sure it’s running. It can take a while to complete and I have to check on it by logging into our network at work from home. It’s almost done after hours of running and then it’s gone. I lost total connection to everything. I’m sitting on the sofa praying it’s just a fluke – that I don’t have to go back in at 11pm to check on things. I check again, again, again. Before I know it, I’m walking in the doors at work.
Odd, the sign out front is not lit and the lights inside aren’t detecting my motion walking through the building. It’s also kind of warmer than usual in here. What’s the beeping noise…
Complete power outage in the entire building. It’s almost like someone pulled the plug just on our building. Right in the middle of my work completing, probably right during backups were running, and other important things. So, I’m there, by myself, in a dark building, can’t do much at all. I went from going 100mph to going 5mph in a matter of seconds. When the power is out all you can do is wait. It’s almost the ultimate way of making yourself slow down to just about a complete stop.
At times we all need to pull the plug on our lives. It’s so hard to slow down in this world with all of our commitments, friends, family, work, church and so much more that rules our lives each day. I think having a ‘power outage’ on our lives every once in a while would let us see who we are, where we are in life and what needs adjusting. Driving back to work tonight I asked God just to be with me, reveal to me a little of his plan for my life in some way or another. I think this may have been His way of reminding me to rest and re-focus on life and what matters most.
