Fasting from Facebook

First of all, I have a large variety of things going through my mind....one of them concerning the title of this post. We'll get to that later..But anyways, last night I was able to have a friend spend the night and allowed her to read my blog, every post from my first to my most recent. As she was reading, she was constantly telling me how good of a writer I was. (Now granted, I'm the girl who made my first post about how I was hoping my writing/blog writing skills would improve over time.) After hearing how great I was at writing who knows how many times, I decided to actually read my own blog. (I encourage any of you blog writers out there to do the same.) I was amazed at what I read! Looking back, I've tended to write my posts late at night, right as I'm about to go to bed....that seems to be when my brain digests and processes everything. I try to keep them honest, while including as much humor as I can to keep from boring you. But as I was reading, I realized that a lot of what was written was the Holy Spirit writing through me because there is no way I could ever say such deep things!

Moving right along to 'fasting from facebook.' It's been a week since I've been on facebook and it's been pretty easy---until today that is. Today our church had a game night followed by bowling. A fun time always involves awesome memories, especially if it involves my crazy church family! The first things on my mind when I finally got home and into my PJs were "I need to write on so-and-so's wall" , "I need to make a status about this!", and "I wonder if he/she said this!" So here I am, wanting to share tonight's events with the facebook world (as if they all wanted to know). It was after realizing that Virginia has my password so I have no way of signing in, that I had an eye-opening moment. Today's society is so obsessed with sharing their personal lives with the world, and needing to know the personal live's of everyone else, myself included.

With 30 some days left without facebook I'm learning to 'share my life with Christ' rather than with the world.  If I had an awesome day, I need to thank God for that. If the day didn't go so well or I'm worried about something, I can go to the Lord in prayer and share what's on my mind. The great thing is, I never have to worry about His 'line being busy' or being judged. He's my heavenly Father and He loves me no matter what. He rejoices with me, His heart breaks with me, He gives me that little nudge if I'm afraid, but He's also there to kick me in the butt when I screw up. The more I focus on pursuing God and what His will is for me, the less I care about pursuing the personal live's of others and getting caught up in the latest gossip. (As much as I have to own up to my fair share of gossip in the past, it's one of my biggest pet peeves and I'm working on ridding my life of it!)

To wrap things up, I know blogging could just be a substitute for facebook, in the sense that I'm sharing my personal life, but I'm not writing it for a certain someone(s) and I'm not having to look through the comments and statuses of everyone else. Rather I'm sharing what God is laying on my heart simply to share it, get it off my chest, and hopefully encourage you reading this :)  Know that I continue to pray for you each night, and I pray that the Holy Spirit would work in your life whether He desires to use this blog to do that or not.  Goodnight Readers!