We live in a world where there are distractions. Distractions EVERYWHERE.
Sometimes I feel like my mind is as busy as Times Square.
Where there are people everywhere and there’s pollution and billboards all around and cell phones and vibrant colored marquees and loudness and lights and dirty streets and just chaos. Everywhere.
In this world, we are able to have numerous conversations at one time.
How? Through our phones.
And sometimes it all just feels like a LOT. To be texting multiple people in between conversations with your best friend, responding to Instagram DM’s, while seeing what your grandmother is up to on Facebook, oh and don’t forget about those Snapchat streaks that are about to expire, AND you promised your mom you would FaceTime her five minutes ago.
Friends! This world. It’s crazy. There is SO much going on at all times, and there is just no way for us to possibly keep up with it all 24/7.
I strive to use my phone with intention, but also know I fail so often at that.
There was a time a couple of weeks ago where I was standing in line somewhere and it was a fifty minute wait. I hadn’t realized it was going to be that long of a wait, or else I would have brought my phone with me. Well, at that point it was too late and I couldn’t go back and grab my phone.
So I had fifty minutes. Instantly, I got anxious seeing everyone on their phones around me, and thought to myself “what am I going to do? How am I going to fill this time up? I’m so bored.”
And I realized how ridiculous those words sounded in my head.
So I began to pray. I prayed and filled those fifty minutes up with prayer. And my friends, it was so much more peaceful and beautiful and calming than any form of social media would have ever given me.
And I realized that I should be spending more time in prayer per day than I do on social media or on my phone. And I know that I most definitely don’t do that.
So here’s a reminder to ME and to you, that prayer is always greater than that device that we hold in our hands. For that device won’t bring us the same beauty, peace, joy, or love that prayer will bring us. Prayer is always the answer, friends. Let’s be more intentional with it.
xoxo
