Hey Facebook. We need to talk...I'm breaking up with you.

Hi sweet friends and family,

After much thought, and prayer, I have decided to leave Facebook.  I have been on Facebook since I was in college when it was www.thefacebook.com and it was only open to those with a ".edu" email address...college students.  You can imagine how something that has been in my life could quickly and easily become a major part of it...as much as I use email or my phone.  Currently, it consumes way more of my time than I care to admit.  Well, you can all SEE how much of my time I have let it take up as pretty much EVERYTHING gets posted that I do.  That's embarrassing.  No lie.  I really think it's a bit of an addiction, really.  

Facebook helped me stay in touch when I was working from home doing childcare and when I was in the hospital on bedrest with Logan.  It was my connection to adult conversation.  Ha!  I now have a family and priorities that I have let fall to the wayside.  More importantly, I have a relationship with God that is suffering because instead of spending any quiet time I have with God, I spend it on Facebook scrolling through a news feed of people who I haven't talked to in years or don't talk to very often.  I find myself coveting what others have and do.  I then doubt myself and just sort of spiral into a depression when I have SO MUCH to be thankful for.  The people I truly care about will be there for me with or without Facebook in my life.

I know that to some of you this is stupid.  It's hard to comprehend how a silly website can get someone addicted.  Well, for me, it has done just that.  I want more time with my family, friends, and God, most importantly.  So feel free to laugh or poke fun.  Just please know that this is important to me.  

I will still check my email daily and my phone.  Maybe I will create a new account one day, but until I learn to better prioritize, it's best that I delete my account.  I ask for prayer...prayer that I will learn to focus more on God, my family, my friends, and my health without any unnecessary distraction.  There's more to life, y'all!  LOL!

So, to those of you who stay in touch with me for the most part of Facebook, PLEASE, stay in touch with me another way.  My relationship with you is important.  

Psalm 119:37, ESV Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things; and give me life in your ways.

Luke 12:22-34 ESV / 47 helpful votes

And he said to his disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat, nor about your body, what you will put on. For life is more than food, and the body more than clothing. Consider the ravens: they neither sow nor reap, they have neither storehouse nor barn, and yet God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds! And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life? If then you are not able to do as small a thing as that, why are you anxious about the rest?

Deuteronomy 6:5 ESV / 37 helpful votes

You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your might.

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My phone number is  214.335.0784

Lots of love.

xoxo