I could stand to pay attention to all of the details of my life more. I say this because like most people, my eyes are often on my phone. The phone at my finger tips is so very versatile. It is my calculator, my notepad, my Spanish tutor. It is my radio, my email, my weather report. It is my calendar, my bible, and my library. It is my gps, my camera, and oh yeah, it is my phone. But since my phone is more than just a phone, I spend way more time on it than I plan to or intend to and over the past few weeks that has become abundantly clearer to me. Because not only is my phone full of all of these practical uses like my calendar and my camera, it also connects me directly to my email and my social media accounts. And like many of you out there, this is where I am failing. I found myself paying far more attention to the details of other peoples lives over my own. I could justify it by telling myself that there’s nothing else I could be doing right now, nothing else I need to be doing right now, or just a quick scroll while I walk a dog, sit in a waiting room, or wait in my car for whichever child I am picking up from somewhere. While my face was in my phone, I was missing life. I wasn’t just missing seeing the world around me, I was missing opportunities to read a book, write, do a craft, sit in the Lord’s presence. I was missing the opportunity just to be…
I decided a few days ago to take a break. While I wanted to quit socials altogether, I knew this would eliminate a lot of my readers from being able to access my work and that I would be limited in spaces to grow my audience. So instead of hitting delete I decided to tell myself no. Do you know what happened when I told myself no? My brain became alive. I haven’t had any big ideas or creativity flowing through me in quite sometime. Telling the socials no left space for me to be inspired by the world around me instead of the world at my fingertips. Telling the socials no shut off the chatter in my brain and allowed me to just be and think.
So right now, I’m doing my best to pay better attention to all the details in my life by cutting my social media time down significantly. The results so far have been that my creativity has been ignited and my productivity has increased. I have been crossing items off of my to do list, writing poetry, working on my WordPress, cooking and baking more, and crafting in the evenings. I pray I continue to be inspired and continue to tell myself no so I can enjoy the details of my life more.
Life As A Fire Wife 
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