After having lost all interest in Facebook, never having had any draw to MySpace, and now losing interest in Twitter, I’m wondering if it wouldn’t just be better to get back to Blogging again.  Or should I just shut it all down and live my life?

MySpace has always seemed to be targeting a very immature (middle / junior high) audience.  I’m just a slight bit out of that age group, and though I do believe I’m still fairly young at heart, – uh…no.

Facebook had my attention for a while, simply because of the ability to reconnect with lost friends, find folks you hadn’t thought about for years and stay in touch with people.  Okay, so that was the first week.  Then I started noticing all of the “So-and-so just took this quiz and found out what Smurf they are…”.  Really?  Does ANYONE need this type of distraction in their life?

Twitter appealed to me because it was quick, easy, clean and had none of the craziness of Facebook.  I didn’t have to feel bad when I rejected someone’s request for help on their new farm or feel like I let someone down because I didn’t help defend them against the other “families” of Mafioso that were thwarting their efforts.  It let me post short, concise matters that were important to me and share them with others.

I was happily posting my workout stats, run times, exercise levels, etc. but started to think to myself “Does anyone really care if I can run two miles in under 20 minutes?” and the answer was a resounding “Don’t think so…”.  All of this information overload, along with an increase in responsibilities (now serving as the English Ministries Pastor to a Korean church) and a decrease in free time has caused me to stop and look at what I’m doing – in more ways than whether I blog, tweet or update my status.  It’s started drawing me back to “basics” so to speak.

The end result is that this weekend (Lord willing and time allowing) I’ll be returning our DVR / Cable Box combo and signing up for the “Basic Cable” that most folks got away from in the past 10 years.  Having grown up with a set of rabbit ears on the back of my TV, and a remote control which consisted of my dad yelling for me to come downstairs and change the channel, I think I can get used to only having 70 channels of nothing to watch, instead of the current 250 (plus an On-Demand system that offers more movies that you don’t want to watch anytime of the day or night).

This simplification, I pray, will leave me with hours of no TV to watch and nothing better to do than read the bible – or if my devotions are already done, maybe a good Max Lucado best seller (I just bought eight of them on sale at his website – http://www.maxlucado.com – look for the “Store”, then find the “Fall Specials” to buy three get one free!).  Maybe I’ll use my iPhone and listen to some more Podcasts of Charles Stanley.  Maybe I’ll just sit … and talk to Rachel.  Or play with Daisy.  Or go run.  Wow – there are a lot of OPTIONS here!

So let me ask you – can you really look at your life and say that you’re doing the most you can with the time you have?  Is it really worth it for you to sit for three hours a night and watch some mind-numbing crime show with cool technology that only exists in Hollywood, solving murders that never really happened and wading through commercials for yet more things that you really don’t need, but now, for some reason, can’t seem to live without?

Or, is it time to start doing the things you’ve always talked about:  Getting up off the sofa and getting some exercise.  Reading that new book – or even re-reading an old one.  Spending some time – quality time – with your spouse (not trying to squeeze in your 90 minute discussion during the 95 seconds of commercial breaks during this week’s crime drama).  Dare I say – spending time in the Word of God – The one thing that we have that will not only enliven your brain but enrich your soul.

I plan on spending much more time on the things that are important to me…and it starts with showing Comcast the door…

Blessings in Christ,

Tom…

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