For the first ten years of this journey, I made being with God the first priority in my job description. It read something like this: To grow and mature as a disciple of Jesus, leading others out of a deep inner life with Jesus. To be became my first work. Eventually, this requirement was added to the the job descriptions of others on our staff. We also built into the culture, over time, a question that was used in supervision and mentoring contexts: “How is it going with balancing your doing and your being? How are you doing your rhythms in this season?”
