I have found that I have been trying to separate all those different facets of my life into neat little compartments. For example, I LOVE photography. That does not mean I am professional or good at it! I consider myself a happy snapper 😊. So I have an instagram account for that. Then, this past year, I have been crocheting up a storm and loving it. So, as not to bombard my "friends" on facebook and instagram, I started a different instagram account.
Now, I am a pretty private person. So, although I want to incorporate instagram into my blog, I want my blog to be solely about, well, what my blog is about, and not my dog, my day, what I'm crocheting today, etc, so.... you guessed it, I had (briefly) an instagram account for my blog. (and I still manage an instagram account for hubby's business).
Twitter, I had one for the blog, where I linked up with like-minded bloggers and a personal one, where I connected mainly with close friends and family. Facebook, yes I have my own page, also one for my blog... but I found I stopped putting too much Christian stuff on facebook, none on instagram... I wasn't being true to all that I am in Christ but splitting up the different sides of me.
I started finding it all so annoying, posting this particular thing here, that particular thing there. Avoiding putting this here or that there. I was starting to compromise! Not on the content of my various social media outlets, but in what I was NOT putting there. I was starting to try please man.
Gal 1 v 10(a): Am I now trying to win the favor and approval of men, or of God? Or am I seeking to please someone? ....
I was beginning to be fearful of offending someone who does not believe!!!! Really!!! I felt awful. I would rather seek God's approval over man's any day but I had been losing the plot. So, the thought came to mind.... Simplify! Be you! Be the you I created you to be! In one space, as a complete facet!
So, I decided to simplify. I deleted all instagrams but my personal one. Moved the business one to hubby 😋. Twitter I let go of end of last year so project simplify had started already 😊. And I have decided to post all the Christian stuff I love and share it like I did before, along with my photos and crochet, and any other facet of me that comes to the fore lol! Of course, being that I am private, one facet you will never see anywhere on social media is my dirty laundry 😜. I feel so much better about being the "me" God created me to be.
Ladies, does this resonate with you? If not, that is cool! I personally think it is the world's way to have us so busy doing stuff and over-complicating our lives without even realizing it, that simplification seems foreign. But, oh the relief to just be me!
I know that I have over-simplified things. We are far more than what we can do, we are mothers, wives, Christians, leaders, doers, helpers, servers, etc. But I think the point I am trying to make is keep it simple and real, and grow that really well, for the glory of the Lord.
God bless
Tracy
Great post, Tracy! Yes, it surely resonates with me...we have been on a simplifying journey for the past couple of years, and we feel SO much lighter and freer without the encumbrances! God bless you...it has been a while since I got to stop by and visit you. It was great to be here tonight!
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