21 Days of Fasting

October 3rd, our church did a 21 Days of Fasting and oh boy, did it work.

My fasting that I chose was social media. I deleted my Twitter and Facebook app from my phone, but I didn’t delete my account. I experienced jealousy and concern, I was sick and tired of looking at political things, people bashing other people, making fun of others, sharing posts that were inappropriate and I was comparing myself to others.

Ugh, talk about toxic, right?

Here are what I learned from getting rid of social media for 21 days:

·         I was more focused on God.

·         I was more focused on Kane.

·         I was in a better mood.

·         I was in the present.

·         I wasn’t wasting my free time.

·         I really didn’t miss it.

·         I found better things to do during my time.

·         I didn’t feel the need to ‘post everything and show off what I was constantly doing’.

It honestly felt SO. GOOD!

Downfall of not having social media for 21 days:

·         I had no idea what was going on with family that wasn’t around me.

·         I forgot an event that I wanted to attend at the church.

·         I missed out on some pictures that my friends posted with their kids.

·         I missed out on pregnancy and engagement announcements.

·         I couldn’t respond back with, “Yes, I saw that, too” when someone asked, “Did you see what so and so had on Facebook?”

But all in all, that’s okay. I was able to reach out to specific people AFTER I found it. It’s seriously okay.

Every morning when I would wake up and enjoy a cup of coffee, I would scroll through social media to see what had happened since I fell asleep the night before. When I did my fasting, I chose to spend more time with God. I spent more time with my devotions, spent more time praying extra for people and I did a scripture reading challenge that I stuck to. Let me tell you…it was AMAZING. I saw things that God did and what He helped me through during that time. I wish I could explain what I felt for anyone to relate but sometimes it’s hard to put it into words!

I focused on more time with Kane. When we’d be relaxing on the couch, instead of scrolling on my phone, I was engaged in the shows that he enjoyed, I listened to him more and I wanted to do more things. We spent more time together (even though we do spend a lot of time together LOL). Especially at night…we’d be scrolling on our phones but instead we’d just share things with each other about our day and we’d just talk. Not like we didn’t do that before; we just spent more time doing it.

I’ve honestly thought about just doing it again but for longer. I could probably live without social media but this is how our world works now. We all experience many things from social media whether that’s negative or positive. But social media is toxic. Pure toxic. It’s an addiction and we all know that….

It’s terrifying…