Discerning Facebook

So for the past couple of weeks I have been having some issues with my Facebook account.  First there were a couple of bugs and then someone got into my email.  This made me deactivate my account…which I had been considering for a while anyway to avoid the constant onslaught of political vitriol that has been coming to a head.  I really can do without the next two months of being told who people support…I get it.  Moreover, I don’t really care.  One vote, that is all each of us gets and yet we are more than happy to alienate and disrespect members of our families, close friends that see the world differently, and otherwise good people in the name of that “one vote”.  I am just as guilty of judging another person’s “one vote” which is why I decided it was time to get off facebook for a while.  The people I know and love are more important than that one vote.I told my oldest daughter today that I think I was getting off course and instead of being a voice of steadiness and faith, I was getting more and more bogged down in the “wrongdoings” around me.  The fact that I was sitting at my computer playing “Words with Friends” apparently gave me the right to feel that way.  Prior to Facebook, I focused on Scripture and the books that explained the context of it but Facebook made me lazy, after all, it is fun to chat it up in a group community.  And I did make new friends that I consider valuable in what they offer through reflection and insight to our faith.  I hope they continue to join me on this blog and chat with me here.  But I need to get back to God who is around me.  I need to spend the time that I was spending idly in front of Facebook instead by getting my house in order, reading Scripture again, being with my kids (well, in truth that is the only thing that doesn’t suffer) and writing.  So hopefully you will see more of me here…cause that means I am stopping and thinking and that is a good thing.Ironically, I had a brief panic last night when I thought about all of the references that I shared through Facebook.  So I clicked one on Fr. Martin’s page…(he and the coupons I will really miss!! :))
and God in his goodness brought me right there.  So I can keep up if I want to with what is going on in my online parish community.  Please let me know that you are here as it will motivate me to keep writing!  Thank you as always for spending some time indulging me.  And pray for me that I can keep away from the noise.