Well, hey everyone, it's Alyssa in my closet. Yeah, it's a little different. I used to and like to do some Facebook lives sometimes, but recently I have just been reassessing my relationship

with my phone. Let me start with the phone. Let me start there. Let me start with the phone. And then social media as well.

Now I know this is kind of a funny thing to talk about. This series I am titling it how to get back our lives from our phones and

here I am probably communicating to you because you have a phone.

Okay, so the irony is not lost on me.

Here's what I'm saying.

Our phones are not bad.

But we've got to continually reassess and be vigilant.

First Peter 113 says about tells us to prepare our minds for action and be sober-minded.

And I know that is what we need for the days ahead.

So I felt like it was time to address this topic.

Did you know one of our most listened to and downloaded and popular episodes.

I'll put a number in the show notes.

I can't remember offhand.

I probably should have done a

little research on that but that would have required me to be on my phone I didn't want

to be on my phone was on a conversation I had with Francie Winslow her and I just

as friends this is probably about four years ago, about deep work. There's a book by Carl Newport called Deep Work. She read it. She called me right away. She said, I think you need to read it. I read it right away. I ate it up and we were both feeling the beginning effects of what felt like noise and technology and our phones.

So that was a conversation that we had,

and many of you listened to that and you said it changed you.

And I would say it has changed me.

That did change me, but I don't think it did a complete work in me

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