Every night, I sit on the couch with laptop on my lap and remote in my hand.  I watch the shows on the DVR, catch up on FaceBook, do a little Farmville farming, check all the stats for my websites, tweet a few times, and eventually get so tired that I start falling asleep on the couch.  It’s become a routine for me to head to bed only when I feel like I can’t keep my eyes open any longer.  It’s no wonder I am tired every day when you look at my evening routine.

I was getting tired of feeling tired all the time, so I decided to change my routine last night.  I made lunches for the whole family and then went straight to bed rather than sitting on the couch again.  After a few minutes went by I was getting aggravated that I could not fall asleep, so I picked up my iPhone and started scrolling through my apps to pass the time.  I could have easily jumped into the Stumble-upon app any of the mindless games I have but instead, I landed on YouVersion.

If you don’t know, YouVersion.com is an internet library of Bible versions with links to commentaries and Bible reading plans as well.  I started going through the Bible reading plans and picked the 90 day plan.  I know I won’t finish the Bible in 90 days like the goal of the plan states, but at least I will be in The Word.  My goal isn’t even to read through the entire Bible.  My goal is to spend time in The Word rather than wasting it on meaningless ventures.  That’s not to say that I am cutting out TV and the Internet, but replacing some of the time I spend online with the remote in hand with time in Scripture.

I didn’t get very far in reading last night before I started falling asleep.  I’m sure other nights I’ll end up reading a lot.  I’m not worried about how much I read, just that I read something.  For the first time in a while, I felt somewhat refreshed this morning.  It could be because I got more sleep than usual, but I think it’s because I was feeding my soul with God’s Word when I fell asleep rather than filling my head with dull, mindless media.