Busyness

Our church has a wonderful theme this year. It's all about going deeper in our faith. Deeper in prayer, giving, serving, fasting, studying, etc. It's about challenging yourself to actually think about what you're doing daily to praise and honor God and striving to dive deeper. It's been awesome.

This week started a church-wide 40 day fast from busyness. The goal is to pare down our schedules of all the busyness that keeps us hopping so fast from one thing to the next that we get stressed out and worn too thin and forget that the most important thing in our lives is living for God. It's about putting our focus back where it belongs.

Well, if you know me, you know that I purposefully do not schedule too much for our family. I simply can't handle too much stress and I just shut down if there is too much on my plate so there really wasn't much in the way of busyness to cut out.

There is a huge time waster in our family though. In recent months, our time spent watching tv and on the internet has gone way up. The internet has become such a huge distraction for me. It's just a bad habit, but my computer stays logged in most of the day and I check my email, facebook, blogs all day long. It's ridiculous. If I need to look up a recipe, I look it up and then get sidetracked and end up spending way too long on the computer. I sit the kids in front of the tv waaaaay too much too. And Chris and I watch it after the kids are in bed while on our computers, me on the internet while he plays Minecraft.

Sooooo, we've cut way back. I can get on the internet from midnight to 7:00 a.m. and we've taken Netflix off of the tv in the living room. (It's been on this week while Chris was home sick though. There's only so much reading one can do when one is loopy on pain meds.)

I just wanted everyone to know why I won't be around much on here or facebook. I haven't yet had the motivation to consistently get up early enough to post. And my internet is about to cut off so I gotta go. I don't even have time to reread what I wrote. Hope it makes sense!