My Good Distraction

I sit down “for five minutes” to check my email only to look up forty five minutes (or so) later and berate myself for having wasted so much time. I think about all that I could have gotten done  if only the silver machine with the glowing face hadn’t distracted me and get up from the computer feeling less motivated than ever to accomplish anything. Lately, that scenario has played out at least once a day if not two or sometimes three (hate to say) but today was my “aha!” moment. While I’m researching  babies’ sleep patterns or how to organize your home in a day, I’m also neglecting housework, practically ignoring the kids, wasting baby nap time, and overlooking Bible study. (If it didn’t seem all that bad to me before, it does now that it’s on paper). Then I thought how is it that I can neglect nearly everything when I’m on the computer but when it’s time to read my Bible I have to take in deep breaths and eat or drink something to stay awake because I’ve put it off until the end of the day? How different would my life be if I was so drawn to God’s Word  that I neglected housework to read it!  It’s so easy to justify time wasted on a laptop but sit down to read the Bible and on comes the “how can you just sit on the couch like that when there is so much that needs to be done?!”. Well, that will not work with me anymore! I’m making up my mind that my Bible will be open at all times; that I will be drawn to it and yearn for it; that it will captivate me; that I will be distracted by it! YES! If I can forsake important duties to waste time reading one-liners on facebook or refresh my inbox an ungodly number of times, I can sure leave the mess to fill my heart with what brings life, love, peace, joy. So there it is. My new distraction. My good distraction. See ya, computer, you’ve just been demoted… someOne else was more qualified for the position.