Needing To Be Present (Pursuing Peace and Contentment)
I've had social media for around 10 years now, and I think some good things have come from it. I've been able to share my life and growth with people I love but don't often get to see. I've learned things, shared the gospel, made mistakes, but most of all I've learned a great deal about the struggles I face in my own heart and mind. I've been off of social media for 4 days now and I really can't tell you the amount of peace it has brought to my life. I realized earlier this week that something was off with the way that I was responding to certain things I was seeing online. I was getting angry and things were affecting me for far too long. They were taking over my thoughts and dictating the amount of joy that I was feeling. You see, I've learned a lot over the past couple years about renewing my mind through the Truth of Christ and clinging to that. Of course I go through times of struggle with this and have to work a little harder to lean on the Lo
