If you are looking for a reason for a social media fast this Lenten season…
My name is Erin and I don’t like to be alone.
I felt convicted that maybe I have a problem and its time to start talking about it.
The thought began with a TEDx Talk, “Social Media – Sucking Time or Saving Lives,” by Kristen Howerton, a marriage and family therapist and professor of psychology at Vanguard University. She explains her traumatic experience with the earthquake in Haiti. During the time, she turned to packing her suitcase to keep herself sane. When it was time to leave Haiti, she found herself with the choice to take her child or her suitcase home with her. This seems like a none issue. Yet, the suitcase had become her lifeline, and for a split second, she couldn’t imagine life without it.
Each of us has our own “suitcase” in life at different times. A suitcase is a thing that distracts us from…
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