giving up iphone apps for lent

There are over 144,000 apps in the App Store. I’ve had over a gig of them on my phone up until today, the net result being a lot of time gazing into the glow of my phone. Which is why I’m taking a break.

Lent is a journey where we give up things that distract us from God and focus more time to prayer. So as we think through what to leave behind, we find things that distract us the most. Fog our clarity the greatest. Clamor for our focus the loudest. And we eliminate them.  In this spiritual act, we experience God in deeper ways because we’ve transferred our pursuit of freedom from our own hands into the hands of Jesus.