Today was Day 3
Sunday- Media Fast- Sermon
Pretty low key day. We stayed home and in all day, except for taking the Brat of a Pup for walks.
Dinner was just ok. I think I messed up the recipe or something. I have made it a million times but it wasn't so good today.
We started our media fast late, about 8pm but it was harder than we were expecting. In the first ten minutes we had each reached for our phones at least five times each. We put our phones on airplane mode and left them in another room. We don't watch TV or any digital media or music or touch our phones or computers, except to load the sermon we started the other morning, the one on the parable of the kings son's wedding feast. It was really good! (watch it here)
Well, after we finished our one media event allowed for the night THEN WHAT?!?! Its shocking how much of my life is spent on media, internet, texting, just playing with my phone. Michael was actually getting jittery at one point. We just kept laughing at each other reaching for the phones that weren't there. I recommend trying to see how long you can go without using ANY media. You will never realize how much you use it till you cant. No checking the weather, no texting, no emails, no adding to your calendar, no VIEWING your calendar, no typing. I wanted to write for the blog and couldnt so I tried to write it by hand... Aparently my creativity doesn't flow if its good old fashioned hand writing.
Eventually we gave up and, I'm not joking, spent about half an hour texting to each other while sitting silently with sports on TV.
Not having a phone will exhaust you . We were drained gave up and went to bed.
Also, I think I'm starting to get a cold. I hate being sick. I hope when I get a good nights sleep I'll wake up better.
Pretty low key day. We stayed home and in all day, except for taking the Brat of a Pup for walks.
Dinner was just ok. I think I messed up the recipe or something. I have made it a million times but it wasn't so good today.
We started our media fast late, about 8pm but it was harder than we were expecting. In the first ten minutes we had each reached for our phones at least five times each. We put our phones on airplane mode and left them in another room. We don't watch TV or any digital media or music or touch our phones or computers, except to load the sermon we started the other morning, the one on the parable of the kings son's wedding feast. It was really good! (watch it here)
Well, after we finished our one media event allowed for the night THEN WHAT?!?! Its shocking how much of my life is spent on media, internet, texting, just playing with my phone. Michael was actually getting jittery at one point. We just kept laughing at each other reaching for the phones that weren't there. I recommend trying to see how long you can go without using ANY media. You will never realize how much you use it till you cant. No checking the weather, no texting, no emails, no adding to your calendar, no VIEWING your calendar, no typing. I wanted to write for the blog and couldnt so I tried to write it by hand... Aparently my creativity doesn't flow if its good old fashioned hand writing.
Eventually we gave up and, I'm not joking, spent about half an hour texting to each other while sitting silently with sports on TV.
Not having a phone will exhaust you . We were drained gave up and went to bed.
Also, I think I'm starting to get a cold. I hate being sick. I hope when I get a good nights sleep I'll wake up better.
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