Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.

I'm Jensen Holt McNair.

A few days ago I was at home getting my

lunch ready. My son Jude was down for a nap and I was reheating some leftover

pizza in the oven. So I start the oven I put the pizza in, I make a mental note to check on it in a few minutes, and then I started a load of laundry. I picked up the playroom, I sat down on the couch to fold a load of laundry while I caught up on a show.

And then 40 minutes later, my son started crying,

so I got him up, I fed him, I changed his diaper,

and I headed to the playroom to hang out.

And on my way, I passed the kitchen, which smelled kind of funny, which is exactly when I realized that my pizza no longer resembled pizza.

It was instead a very burnt brick.

We went to Chick-filalais for lunch instead. Now besides bragging about my super

healthy diet, this story exposes a chronic problem that I have in my life. I'm easily distracted.

When my husband and I go out to dinner, he purposefully takes whatever seat will keep me with my back to the rest of the restaurant.

He knows that a table full of people stressing a waitress out, or a couple having an argument, or a baby, or a TV, or a car having a hard time parking outside

will all pull my attention away from the table in

front of me and the conversation he's trying to have will be hopeless. Now I'm

sure you've probably heard that humans now have the attention of a goldfish, but that's wrong.

We've actually dropped below the goldfish now.

We've gone from a long nine seconds to an eight second attention span this year. A 2020 Harvard study

showed that our minds are wandering 47% of the time. On average people spend

147 minutes a day on social media apps that are designed to

grab your attention with new and exciting entertainment every few seconds to keep you hooked. Articles and blog posts are getting shorter so people stick around and actually read them.

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