Offline

I logged offline from my Instagram recently as I noticed I started to unconsciously waste my time and energy scrolling and posting too much. Logging out felt freeing as it really gave me some kind of permission to be more present in the moment, rather than presenting what I did in a moment to the world online.

I looked up the definition of “offline” and when used as an adjective, it is an activity that is not available on or performed using the Internet. As an adverb, it means out of operation or existence.

I’ve been feeling a bit out of operation and craving to be out of existence.

Taking the lessons learned from the past during the pandemic, I remember one thing that helped me refresh, was offline activities such as going out in nature where God could just be felt and seen everywhere in the open sky, ocean, mountains, and trees around us.

I took our kids and their friends to a beach far away from home that was empty and completely ours. It felt great to be “out of existence” where they were perfectly happy offline sitting on a tree branch for hours, letting the waves wash them up on the sand, then pull them back in the water, and collecting crabs to put in a bucket and then let them all go.

No one from afar was giving them a like for what they were doing, but instead they personally felt love in every moment, and so did I.

Do you need to take a break offline?

Let’s find peace by piece in knowing we don’t need to earn the world’s likes and prove and post everything, but can love what God puts right in front of us and feel His existence, when we feel out of operation.

“You have searched me, Lord, and you know me. You know when I sit and when I rise; you perceive my thoughts from afar. You discern my going out and my lying down; you are familiar with all my ways.” -Psalm 139:1-3