Social Media Detox

After my last post "DO YOU, unapologetically" I woke up the next morning to an unexpected hour of alone time (thanks to my kids sleeping in) where I got to read my bible in peace and just be with Jesus. So refreshing, because I'd have to wake up around 5am to make this happen daily and that just doesnt happen right now. 

Thoughts were still rolling around in my mind about everything I wrote in that last post about the pressures to be all and do all and that is when Jesus spoke:

If that's how you're doing, Aimee, stop feeding the machine. 

If social media is one of the things feeding those things in you, get off!

So, I did just that this past week.  Social Media is a tricky thing.  It's great because it keeps extroverted-stay-at-home-moms who are alone with kids all day, like me, connected to others. It builds new relationships. It keeps far-away family, like mine, connected. It's fun to keep up with people and see what they're doing and show off, I mean share, our own lives.

BUT it also breeds comparison. And fear of what people think of me. And it breeds this desire for people's approval and affirmations and validations by their "likes" and comments on my life. 

I don't want my confidence and security and affirmation to be found in other's opinions of me. That is a shaky place. I want to have one goal: to please Jesus. Galatians 1:10 really reassured me that being off of social media was there right move for me at this time. It says "Am I now trying to win the approval of human beings, or of God? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still trying to please people, I would not be a servant of Christ." I was reminded that we cannot please both God and man.  We cannot be winning the approval of both, its one of the other. 

If I'm going to truly take my own advice and "do me, unapologetically" then social media has to get the boot for awhile. It takes up waaaaaay too much of my time, anyway.  

After being off of it for a bit this past week my main take aways were these;

• I want to be a person of prayer, not a person who knows what everyone else is doing from being on Facebook.

• If no one knows that I'm reading my bible or listening to this worship song, will I still do it? WHO am I doing it for; for jesus or to post it to show them?

• I want to be fully present in the moments of life and enjoy them instead of always thinking of how I will post it. 

So, I will be camping out here on my blog for awhile instead of Facebook and Instagram.