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Monday, September 7, 2015

WHY I'M DELETING MY FACE BOOK ACCOUNT

   The shortest answer is, BECAUSE I WANT TO. Seriously! I know its so not the normal. Face book has so many wonderful aspects. I love that I have gotten in contact with people from seasons past. I love the messaging. I love seeing the wonderful things people are doing with their lives. You can log on to so many things easily with your FB account. The list goes on. So why in the word would I purposefully give up something so great. Because, I am easily distracted. It is easy for me to log on and have 30 min. go by just zoning out and not even realize it. I have used it to cope with life. Dangerous. Just like any other (food, spending money, working out, drugs, alcohol, sex) coping mechanism apart from Jesus is dangerous. I struggle with pride on a regular basis. FB is a great outlet for me to show off. Not good.  I have also struggled much with (Though I have had serious victory lately) envy. Wanting what other's have for myself. Easy for me to do when I am seeing snapshots of what others have or get to experience.
     Now I have been asked why not just limit yourself access to it so as to keep those heart issues in check. That is totally one way to go about it and I assume that many people do that. I have in the past.   Over the last month I have been limiting myself and have enjoyed my real life so much more. When I am mindful of what I will post regarding events or moments in mine and my families life I find that I hover over the experience instead of being present in it.
     I DO NOT feel convicted that this is some thing God is calling me to do. I have prayed much about it and believe His answer on this one is, " you pick."  "Either way is OK." So, I pick delete. I want to be free of this particular pull in my life and gather up all those lost minutes. I want to use those minutes to call a friend and connect on a deep heart level. Or maybe play my guitar again. Or read a book! Eh... that probably won't happen but who knows maybe. Also this parenting thing is getting harder. It requires less diapers and carrying babies around but way more heart investment. I want to spend my energy on that instead. I only have so many unscheduled or free minutes in the day Face book is not longer a way that I want to spend them. Let me be clear I am not anti FB. This is just my desire for myself. If you love FB by all means go on loving it! Maybe I will open a new account in the future I don't know but for today, I am choosing delete and I am really excited about it.
     I just wanted to share so that if you were a FB friend and couldn't find me you knew why. Now if you are my FB friend and would like to stay in contact please message me in the next week. Give me your email and number because I would love to stay in contact too.
    Something else that I will just have to trust the Lord with is this blog. I do write in hopes to encourage and build others up. Most of the views for this blog come directly from FB. So if you would like to know when I post please enter in your email over on the right so you can get notifications when I have posted. If I ever write something and it encourages you and you want to pass it on by all means feel free to post it on your FB. Because remember I'm not anti FB :) This blog is for God's glory anyways...its not about how many people read it but I want to obey as He has clearly called me to write. If its only for one person and that person is me...OK!
      So that is it. I hope to interact with you my beloved reader here on this blog or through email or the phone. I may even start writing real letters again! That's could be fun! So this is me signing off FB. Bye <3
I didn't really know what picture to put with this post...ah how
about this one...I love this one! lol