Would appreciate your prayers...leaving CAA for a bit

[Sheenar]

I'll try to make this short (though I'm not very good at that ). I have been fighting this for a while --you know, doing what I want rather than what I know the Lord wants me to do.
I have been spending too much time online and have been getting on the computer first thing in the morning to check my messages/posts on here and also on Facebook and Dogster. I have been neglecting my time with God --mostly reading my Bible kind of as an afterthought after I have done what I wanted to online.
I really need to get my priorities right. Not that CAA is bad or anything. I have been greatly blessed being a member here --I just need to take a break for a while to get things right with the Lord.

I have fallen into apathy (at least partly). I don't feel like doing anything --not my schoolwork, not my Bible study, and not my reading for fun. I keep staying up late being online to the neglect of my sleep and to my showering schedule (I lose track of time online and don't get off until I'm so tired I flop into bed --then I oversleep in the morning --so no shower. Ugh.)I have been convicted that the amount of time I spend on the computer is not a beneficial or wise use of time.

Also pray that I will learn to love people. There's this guy upstairs somewhere who plays his stupid drum late at night and I would love nothing more than to give him a piece of my mind...but I have no idea which dorm it's coming from. Pray that I will deal with this in a Christ-like manner --also that I would deal with an annoying supervisor and coworker in a Christ-like manner as well.

God has been showing me all kinds of things that are in me that are not good --things that need to go.

So goodbye for now. I ask that if anyone catches me on here for the next 3 weeks or so, PM me and tell me to go away please. I don't know how else to ensure that I don't waste time that I should be using in more beneficial ways...

I love you guys. See you in a month...maybe.

[Mr. SmartyPants]

I pray that you will be successful!

See you later!

[freerock1]

Thanks for your honesty. Lifting you up, my sister.

[bakura_fan]

i'll be praying! It was nice to meet and get to know you while you were here! Hope to see you soon!

[Danderson]

You have my prayers on that....I'm startin to wonder if I need to do the same thing....with the internet anyways....

[AsianBlossom]

You got it.

[Angel Tifa]

I don't mean to sound too harsh, but I don't see how checking e-mail first thing in the mornings is a bad thing or neglecting time with the Lord. I do that all the time (checking my e-mail always first thing in the morning and being online a lot). I don't get it, but okay. But I could also understand if it's been a lot of hours a day too.

In fact, I feel as if I'm becoming closer to the Lord just by being here because this is one of the very view Christian forums I have ever found and just by speaking and communicating with my fellow Christians, I feel as though I am practicing fellowship and it is truly a blessing imo.

But I truly see where you're coming from and if you feel that being online is keeping you from doing what you need to do to be closer to God and Christ I totally understand . I think I've kind of had the same problem to and I need to start reading my Bible nightly again regardless of how many other books I need to finish up. I've already finished reading the entire Bible once, but I would of course do it all over again. I've been praying every night to God, but I need to start praying with my voice again instead of in my mind so much. No ones perfect though and we do make mistakes. I guess all we can do is the best we can.

Either way Sheener, you will be in my prayers and good luck with your journey on becoming closer to God ^____^!

God Bless hon'!

[SP1]

This seems like a good idea. Praying for you Sheenar.