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Let's do it. Welcome to the Just Different Podcast.

I am your host, Darren Starks,

and I'm joined by my co-host, brother and friend Jordan,

and now we're here and honestly today in this

episode we're gonna be going through what it looks like to break your phone

addiction what it means to gain back your time, your focus,

and honestly be able to actually like fix your eyes on Jesus

and just what's right in front of you. The last six months I feel I've been very much glued to my phone and it's left me in this weird state spiritually where I know I love God and you know I give my time to him and I feel as if I sacrificed but whenever I come home from work or on the

weekends or at any point I have time to relax I have any moment to just be with myself. I tend to just want to be entertained.

Like the last thing I feel like I want to do is get my word, worship, when I have the option of like even maybe going to Bible study or being with friends to seek more of God going a fast it is the last

option on the table to me it seems as if like my desire and propensity is very

much fixed on scrolling through Tik-Tok watching YouTube and

masking that behind a will I'm getting educated or you know I'm learning a lot

or I'm connecting with people when in actuality I feel as if it's really

deteriorating like my faith and like my affinity for God almost.

And there was a quote that I found that really put this together in

terms of how it's been halting my faith in some ways and it says for many of us

the great dangers not that we will renounce our faith it is that that we will become so distracted, rushed, and preoccupied that we will settle for a mediocre version of it. We will just skim our lives instead of actually living them.

And if there is a word to describe

kind of like what happened

or I feel like the effect of just being so tied to my phone

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