Katie's prayer: Kutless' "All Alone"

I'll be with you, and help you
In all that you go through

During one of my many visits to facebook today, I ran across this status: “Saw a great church marquee message today...’Trying to iron out your problems without Jesus puts wrinkles on your face!’ Love it!” That message was really repeated a lot in this song. You don’t have to be all alone in your problems. God’s right there waiting to help you.

One problem I’ve been struggling with recently is boredom. I gave up tv for lent, so I’ve been away from that. For a while, I just traded my tv obsession with a facebook obsession. Until I realized, there’s really only so much you can do on facebook before that becomes boring. Then it became a general internet obsession. Until I realized that I would go through the posts on google reader, get to the last one, then click on the google reader link again, knowing full well that there would not be more posts, but yet doing it anyway. Staring at google reader when there’s nothing new to read - boring.

This afternoon, I was reading a post about what to do if you have failed your Lenten promise. When I began the article, I thought I was good, I haven’t turned the tv on once (except for that first Sunday because I got a movie from the library after months and months of waiting and was not able to watch it before ash wednesday, and not able to keep it til after Easter). The more I read though, the more I realized that I had failed. I told myself when Lent started that I was going to give up tv and not allow myself to turn to my computer for my source of entertainment.

So today, I turned to God. Asked Him how I should cure my boredom. You know what, I found loads of stuff to do! Repotting this plant that I’ve been meaning to do forever. Finally putting labels on my recycle bins. More cleaning. And a slight break to re-read a good book. Bunches of other things kept sticking out to me (that I haven’t gotten to yet), things that I’ve been meaning to do forever, but haven’t because I was “too busy.” On the list for tomorrow: cleaning the fridge, cleaning the bathroom, re-doing my earring holder, and more reading. Thank you Jesus for helping me find freedom from my boredom!