One Month in.....

Well, it's been one month since I had a Facebook account, I factory reset my smartphone a couple weeks ago and I'm officially feeling the effects of it. No more picture taking. No more looking up lyrics to the many songs sung at the Lodge when I visit Gramma. No more instand calendar.I also no longer have maps when I'm driving. or the ability to listen to music or podcasts when I'm working in the kitchen or going for a walk. No more being available 24/7 which I'm actually really liking. So it means I have a small paper daytimer in my purse and I use it in tandem with my homeschool planner so I know what's going on when. I'm in the middle of making a songbook of the songs typically sung at the Lodge and then will have a paper copy to take with me. I ask others to take pictures and send them to me....not a lot though. I was never a major picture taker in the first place. The only time I'm online is when I'm in front of my laptop in the office. I'm getting used to a slower pace. A smaller world. And I'm learning to live in the present, not the past or the future. There is a phrase in a song sung by Glenn Walker, "Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery but today is a gift and that is why it's called the present." the origin of that saying is unknown....but often attributed to Elenor Roosevelt. There is such joy in simplicity. It is shifting my priorities. It's a blessed thing to actually not feel the pressure that comes with social media....trying to keep up with what's going on in people's lives that you don't know personally. It's so easy to get caught up in other people's life stories even when we aren't involved....our emotions get invested easily. Might I suggest, that Abba wants to guide us to who we invest our energy into. We can be sure we won't be spread thin that way. Overall, I do not regret getting rid of the smartphone or Facebook....yet. I have found though that my drug of choice has shifted to reading books. They aren't bad books, but they are still filling my time that has been freed up for Abba. I'm still avoiding intimacy with the Lover of my soul...and THAT needs to change. The cool thing though, is that I am recognizing it faster and can do a course correction sooner. I'm SO thankful that Abba's mercies are new EVERY morning, and He is excited to see me choose Him.

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