The 'f' word

This morning I got up around 3am to see if we had any of this blizzard they were talking about. I came into the kitchen to get a drink and saw my neighbor up, outside. She was on her back porch, as always, smoking. I laughed to myself because her children swear she doesn't smoke anymore and she still goes outside every 2 hours to smoke. I don't have an addictive personality so I can't begin to understand the addiction of nicotine.

However, I had become addicted to something else. Facebook. I know that I have harped on it before and I started feeling like a hypocrite because I wasn't doing anything about it. I was sitting at work talking to God and started thinking about how many times a day I would get on facebook and just get sucked into it. Far to much. So, I deleted it off my phone, messenger too. I only get on it twice a day, at most. In the morning to post my blog and the evening to check any notifications I may have.

In the 3 days that I have gotten rid of facebook on my phone I have almost read a whole book. I have picked up 2 other books I've wanted to read and spent more time investing in my son. It's been worth it really. It's not like I'm missing out on much. Today it's a bunch of snow pictures and I can look on my back porch and see that.

No, that doesn't mean I don't care whats going on in your life or whats going on. A friend of mine put it to me this way, "With having facebook, everyone is connected instantly, there is a lack of intimacy in friendships. You can instantly post something and everyone know whats going on in your life. You don't get phone calls anymore. You don't get letters anymore."

For a world that is so connected, we are very out of touch. There is so much more that we are missing out on in life. I'm not saying that we are all addicted to facebook. I'm saying that there is a lack of connectivity to people because of the world of facebook. Your addiction could be something completely different than mine, or could be the same. What God was showing me was that I was spending so much time with it that I was neglecting spending time with Him. Facebook had become a god in my life. Something that came before God and that's not okay.

I don't know what is in your life that may be keeping you from connecting with God but attempt to weed it out and replace the time you would be doing the other activity with reading the world of God or praying. See if that doesn't improve your day/life.