Sunday, January 27, 2008
Eigh
Yesterday I was going to go to the movies with Austin, Christa, and Kara and about an hour before we were going to go to the movie I remembered that I was doing an entertainment fast...so I thought about it for a while and ended up calling Austin and canceling and apologizing. He actually apologized for tempting me lol. It's crazy how much I've realized from doing this fast. I honestly just expected to easily not watch movies or play games/do pointless things on my computer and replace it with time spent with God. Although I failed at successfully getting through the week without any of that I still don't feel like I really failed. God taught me the importance of how I spend my time and to think about what I let myself do instead of just doing whatever feels right at the time. The reason I had decided to do this fast after camp was basically so that I could help enforce the fire that I built up while at camp and I don't know if it necessarily helped that (although the Experiencing God study definitely has) but it was not in vain. The reason I even thought of doing the fast in the first place was because I remembered reading it in a book recently or something, but I have no idea what book I read it from because the book I had thought I read it from apparently Brad didn't remember it. It could also just be that Brad is retarded. Anyway I just wanted to give that update and I've decided that today is the last day so I won't do an extra week since it wasn't really for a good reason other than I wanted to make up for screwing up when I went to watch the movie. I might do it again sometime though.
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Good job sticking to your fast (when you remembered at least)! Are you going to change anything based on what you learned?
Blake had the same question as me!
Well Matt and I are going to set a limit as to how often we play video games and mainly only play them together or with other people. As for movies I think that I will just try to pay attention to how often I see movies I mean I kind of already do that anyway since I don't have the money for movies. The movie I went to during the fast was because I had a free pass and then Austin really wanted me to go with him on Saturday so he said he would pay for my ticket. Umm, basically I just learned that I need to think about the actions I take before I do them. It all goes back to being more purposeful with my time. I'm going to start making a to do list for the day including hw, leadership responsibilities, reading Bible/spending time with God, etc. and then making sure that those things get done before entertainment does.
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