If you follow me on Twitter, or are friends with me on FaceBook, no doubt you’ve noticed a lack of posts by me over the last 36 hours. Here’s why!

For the last year or so, I’ve felt at different times that God might want me to do a fast.. but not a “ditch the food” fast, instead a tech fast.  I’ve never really heard a booming voice telling me to, but at times, I’ve just had a feeling that it would be healthy for me to get off of facebook and or twitter for a little while.  On Tuesday night, I was laying in bed, around 11pm watching a movie, and chatting with people over twitter, and it dawned on me “Lent starts in a hour”.. and out of no where, thought that if there was a good time to give up facebook and twitter, now would be a really good time to do that.

I’ve had people ask me over the last day, since announcing to the world that I was giving up social media for lent, “isn’t lent a Roman Catholic thing”.. but it’s not, Lent is something that is celebrated by many Christians all over the world, and it is a time of 40 days, building up to Easter, that we deny ourselves of the things that prevent us from connecting to God.  Lent is the time of year that we are suppose to be preparing ourselves for easter, through prayer, repentance, and a few other things as well.

One of the things I always tell people is that “I just don’t read my bible enough” or “I don’t prayer nearly enough”.. I never really have a reason as to why, beyond being slack, lazy, or busy, all pretty lame excuses if you ask me. So, this year, I’ve decided that, in order to spend more time with God, I’m going to at least push away the things that take up a lot of my time.. and that is social media.  I don’t think there is anything wrong with social media, I think facebook and twitter are a great way to keep in touch, and meet new people, but sometimes, and I know in my case, we can spend too much time on them, and forget about the real relationships that are around us, namely, the one with God.

So here I am, on day 2 of the fast.. It’s honestly going a lot smoother than I thought it would.. I figured by 15 hours I’d be wondering whats happening on twitter, or who has posted on my wall..  and I have at a few moments thought about it, but I’ve deleted the apps from my iPhone and iPad, and blocked the IP addresses from my computer, so even if I wanted to give in (which I don’t) it would be more work than it’s worth.

Over the next 40 days I will be spending the time I would have spent on facbeook/twitter praying and reading the scriptures. I’m hoping that through this I will hear the voice of God more clearly.  As many of you know, I am in a time of transition right now, as I’m trying to discern where God is calling my family and I in the next part of our journey.. so I’m hoping that in the silence of facebook, I will be able to clearly hear his voice. I will be posting here on the blog from time to time.. mostly because I’m sure my parents and in-laws will miss the lack of photos of my boys being posted daily.. so I will try to post those from time to time.. but I will also be posting about anything I feel God teaching me.

Please pray for me, as I know as the days go by, it’s going to get harder.. I really like social media, and having the opportunity to talk with so many people.. right now, at the beginning stages I’m finding it easy, but that is because “I’ve got something to prove” as there are some people who don’t think I can do it.. but I figure after the first week, instead of it getting easier, it’s likely going to get harder as I feel more and more disconnected.. so please pray