May 26, 2019 Acts 16:9-15, Psalm 67 I was recently introduced to something called interruption science -- the study of how interruptions affect us. Interruptions are defined as “anything that distracts us from our primary task” -- and that can be almost anything. We are constantly bombarded by text message alerts and other electronic buzzes from our phones, by people coming to talk to us about their primary tasks, by appointments and meetings. And then there are the abundant self -interruptions -- when we toggle our computer screen to steal a short glance at our email, or start on a tangent because we happen to be reminded by something in front of us. Interruption scientists have discovered that it takes the average person about 25 minutes to recover from an interruption that is unrelated to the task they were previously working on. But unfortunately, the average human is interrupted at least every 12 minutes (and some studies say self-interruptions may a