My Social Media-less Life

There I was, minding my own business and cleaning my regular Monday client’s house while listening to a podcast, when all of a sudden I feel the distinct voice of the Lord:

“I want you to purge your bedroom.”

I had to stop everything for a minute because I was so taken aback by that sudden and rather violent proclamation. And then I took mental stock of what was in my room and realized…

It’s all junk.

Ok, to be fair, it’s not all junk. There are some things in my room I know even the Lord would tell me to keep, and He has… since we’ve been talking about this all day.

So basically 98.5% of the stuff in my room is junk.

Tonight when I got home from all the things, I began with what I thought would be the easiest thing, since I just pared it down a lot: my wardrobe.

When he told me I had to get rid of the long underwear I’ve had since I was 16 (that used to be my mother’s, so I just put it in a bag for her to get back), I knew this was going to be a hard paring.
Like my mom said, “you’ll need them again.” Ok, but that’s not what the Lord said, and I’m just trying to be obedient. Maybe I will need them again, but I’ll just have to go get them if it comes down to that, I guess.

Funny aside, but since the Lord was on “loud and clear” terms tonight I straight up asked Him if I’m getting married and He said, “No.” So… not only am I single by choice, but now I have my Heavenly Father’s word that it’s not going to happen. 😛 (and yes, this is funny to me)

Thankfully, the Lord let me keep all of my dresses (I got rid of the two I liked the least anyway, since I was at it), and oddly… He let me keep all my sweatshirts? But again… He was directing tonight. I don’t know what the future holds, but apparently only the top half of me will need to be super duper warm. I mean, I do have some pants, but I only have one pair of black jeans that’s not “work related or work adjacent”, and I got rid of both pairs of my sweatpants.

A friend said, “Makes me wonder what you’re going to be doing” and I don’t know that I was ready for that level of commenting yet. I obviously agree with her assessment, but it did give me more pause…

Tonight the Lord gave me fair warning that once “we’re” all done in the closet (after the wardrobe comes all of the things in the closet), we’re moving onto my books. I’m glad He told me that, honestly, because as much as I don’t have a big emotional attachment to a lot of the books, I feel like it’s healthy to have a decent library of sorts.

The reason I’m revealing all of this is because… as much as I’m trying to stay completely open and not “hide” anything from God as if He can’t touch it, it’s hard because… what if He does tell me to get rid of something that I have a big emotional attachment to?

And then of course I equated the whole situation to a more physical version of leaving social media and realized… THAT’S why I’m having issues. But I turned out better in the end because of leaving social media. So I know I’ll turn out better in the end because of this.

I was even thinking today (right before the Lord told me He wanted me to purge my bedroom) that as much as I “hate” being one of the last in my friend group to know a big thing that happened, I really enjoy getting my news from places that aren’t attached with someone’s feelings. Even if it’s someone getting engaged or having a baby; it’s literally just the person that reached out and not everyone else’s opinions about it.

For some reason, every podcast I listened to today hit on some aspect of how being on our phones all the time isn’t good for us as humanity, but also as a society, so I guess the Lord has been trying to get me to be Example #1 as to how to get away from social media (or our phones) a little bit more everyday…

So if you need some advice or pointers… I’ll help however I can. 🙂 Don’t be surprised if my first piece of advice is to get rid of social media completely though. 😛

In the meantime, if I look a little more dressed up than usual, it’s because the Lord has willed it. Literally.