| | The past week i was on a computer/tv fast. I felt that i was spending too much time on the computer, caring about too many things that i shouldn't really care about. It was occupying a large chunk of my free time. You are what you eat, after all, and what I was eating was equivalent to drinking large amounts of pure high fructose corn syrup mixed with chocolate laxative. What you put into your body is the energy that you live off of, and if you aren't getting the right amount and kind of energy then you are going to be lazy, tired, and sit around all day. I had come to the conclusion that what i was putting in was causing what was coming out to be, well, crap. Don't get me wrong, I was 'eating' lots of other stuff too, good stuff, and there was good stuff coming out from that. But still, I felt like i needed a diet from computer. Since taking away the main source of 'food' would cause me to go to the next easiest meal, Television, I just took that away too. Now, it wasnt a completely strict fast, I'll admit. It was specifically intended to be applied to my personal time. I played Super Smash brothers with the Dressers at Steve's birthday party, and i allowed myself to check my email for important going's on, but thats about it.
And on saturday I ended this fast with the Drinking Fest at church. What a time.
Basically, this whole week, i had a LOT of time on my hands. By day 2 (which was Sunday), i had lost much of the desire to go online, check my facebook, watch youtube, and look at xbox 360s on amazon. I was spending mornings with the Lord. I would journal, play guitar, read, write, go for a run with my bros...it was awesome. On tuesday, when i was planning the worship set for Saturday's event, an hour slipped by without me noticing. I had removed myself from a dependency on time, since i wasn't constantly having a clock in the upper right hand corner of my screen nor was I watching block scheduled tv. I found myself going to bed earlier, waking up earlier, and getting more energy because of it. I had more time to genuinely spend with people, like R-Flu, Julian Castle, Dave and Betty Dresser, and my sister. I really enjoyed myself!
So the week+2 days ended with the Drinking fest at church, which ended up being another reason to go through with the Fast. As several of you MDCCers know, this was my first time leading worship for an MDCC event. It was slightly a step up from leading at Tribe. It was a huge spiritual promotion and honor for me to do, and I wanted to really open myself up to however the Lord wanted worship to go that night. Fasting computer and tv totally did that by removing a huge chunk of distraction.
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| | Posted 3/31/2008 10:01 AM - 54 Views - 8 eProps - 4 comments
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