Facebook v Face-time with God

It has been over ten days since my husband, daughter and I have “deactivated” our Facebook pages.  We had been discussing deactivation for over a year…really, since last Christmas.  And, finally, we did it… 

We deactivated our Facebook accounts. 

It has been a good thing.  A really, really good  thing. 

I confess, at first, I really missed it.   

But, as each day passes, I don’t miss it. 

I have written more “snail mail” letters, made more phone calls and spent more time with others these past ten days…. 

I have spent more time in solitary prayer…in keeping up with my Bible daily readings and am ahead in our ladies’ church book club reading.

I confess that occasionally, I do have to “re-activate” it to get a person’s address or email or phone number, so I have had a few moments of “peeking” into what I have been missing…and, honestly, I have yet to see anything that I have really missed….and, in fact, it has actually been a protective blessing to miss some of the things I have…

What I have gained is this….

Peace of mind.

At a season in my life where peace has become a precious jewel, offered to me only through the grace of God, this gift of peace of mind is precious to my heart and soul.

Don’t get me wrong, I don’t think Facebook is a horrible thing…or even a bad thing.  In fact, it has many good purposes…keeping in touch with a daughter away at college, or cousins who live in another state or even dear friends who hold our hands in prayer…

But, truth be told, it does allow one to think out-wardly more simply and more in-wardly, less simply.

Reflection does not come as easily when I am intertwined elsewhere…

Reflection does come more simply when I am enmeshed with Him….when my first thought in the am is an arrow prayer to Him…and the last thought before I lay down my head is an arrow prayer back to Him.

So, as we continue our season of being “de-activated”, I am actually grateful for our family…and, it’s decision to put down the computer and to lift up one another.

We may be “de-activated” from Facebook, but we are being “re-activated” to life…

And, that is a good thing.

Blessings,

Lesa