recognize that there are moments when you have to focus. In Western culture we have gotten used to “multitasking,” partly out of apparent necessity, partly out of choice. We think we can keep adding one more thing to our schedules without asking what we are going to abandon to create the room, and we aren’t very good at standing back and asking what has priority. It’s hard to perceive the moment when you have to focus, and it’s hard to do the focusing. Perhaps the recurrence in Scripture of the expression