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I started writing this a week and a half ago, saying...
I feel as though Lent has started well for me. As I anticipated, the first few days with no facebook were quite challenging, and I think that had I not taken the step of uninstalling the app on my phone and logging out on all the computers I use I would have slipped far too easily, but by now the instinct to load it up every half hour has become far more infrequent, and also less jarring when I remember.
My other discipline, which I expected to struggle with rather more, is getting to bed with the lights out by 10.30 every night. I am having slightly more difficulty getting to sleep when I go to bed that early than when I go exhausted, but by that I mean it takes me 10-30 minutes to drop off, rather than the moment my head hits the pillow. I had wondered whether that would mean waking before my alarm (which goes off at seven), and on Thursday & Friday it didn't quite, but I was definitely in the waking process by the time it went off. Over the weekend with no alarm set I slept quite a lot - 9.5 and 8.5 hours between going to sleep and waking up each day, but this morning I woke just before five, feeling quite refreshed.
...and then got interrupted, and haven’t got back to finishing it since. I’ve not quite had the discipline to stick to it perfectly every day since, but I have managed to be in bed by then, and lights out by 11.30 or thereabouts. I’m definitely finding that although I’m spending less time awake, I am finding much easier to spend more of that time being thoughtful and prayerful and in general more the me that I believe God wants me to be. So that’s good.
The lack of FaceBook is definitely helping with that, but is also leading me to feel quite disconnected in ways that aren't entirely positive, so I need to give some further thought to how I might be able to regain that connectedness without giving back so much of my brainspace to it.
I’m also reading Meeting God in Paul by Rowan Williams. In fact, it’s short enough that I finished my first read through of it last night. I found it interesting, moving, and enlightening, and definitely feel as though I have a better sense of both who Paul was and what he was trying to say in his writings. I haven’t magically stopped finding him difficult and at times frustrating, but it’s easier to view him with nuance now. I’m going to go back and re-read more slowly, looking up the various biblical passages referred to, and writing some short notes.
I feel as though Lent has started well for me. As I anticipated, the first few days with no facebook were quite challenging, and I think that had I not taken the step of uninstalling the app on my phone and logging out on all the computers I use I would have slipped far too easily, but by now the instinct to load it up every half hour has become far more infrequent, and also less jarring when I remember.
My other discipline, which I expected to struggle with rather more, is getting to bed with the lights out by 10.30 every night. I am having slightly more difficulty getting to sleep when I go to bed that early than when I go exhausted, but by that I mean it takes me 10-30 minutes to drop off, rather than the moment my head hits the pillow. I had wondered whether that would mean waking before my alarm (which goes off at seven), and on Thursday & Friday it didn't quite, but I was definitely in the waking process by the time it went off. Over the weekend with no alarm set I slept quite a lot - 9.5 and 8.5 hours between going to sleep and waking up each day, but this morning I woke just before five, feeling quite refreshed.
...and then got interrupted, and haven’t got back to finishing it since. I’ve not quite had the discipline to stick to it perfectly every day since, but I have managed to be in bed by then, and lights out by 11.30 or thereabouts. I’m definitely finding that although I’m spending less time awake, I am finding much easier to spend more of that time being thoughtful and prayerful and in general more the me that I believe God wants me to be. So that’s good.
The lack of FaceBook is definitely helping with that, but is also leading me to feel quite disconnected in ways that aren't entirely positive, so I need to give some further thought to how I might be able to regain that connectedness without giving back so much of my brainspace to it.
I’m also reading Meeting God in Paul by Rowan Williams. In fact, it’s short enough that I finished my first read through of it last night. I found it interesting, moving, and enlightening, and definitely feel as though I have a better sense of both who Paul was and what he was trying to say in his writings. I haven’t magically stopped finding him difficult and at times frustrating, but it’s easier to view him with nuance now. I’m going to go back and re-read more slowly, looking up the various biblical passages referred to, and writing some short notes.
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