Busy at all the wrong things

So I just got done reading the book "Crazy Busy" by Kevin DeYoung who is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors. Man was this a much needed book in my life. Some serious conviction that has led to some rethinking my priorities.

The really convicting chapters were those on parenting, technology and sitting at the feet of Jesus. Things that I feel like I fall short (parenting), spend too much time on (technology) and spend too little time on (sitting at the feet of Jesus).

First parenting, I feel like I spend so much time trying to correct my 4 year old's behavior all the while thinking if I just limit her TV watching to this amount of time, give her a set routine for bedtime and not stray from it, say no to any juice after dinner and before lunch, express my frustration with her when she pees her pants because she is "too busy" to walk away from the TV or from playing with her dolls, and the list goes on. However, as I began to look back at my childhood and the way my parents brought me up, I do not remember any of the rules that they gave and don't really feel like they shaped me as much as I hope mine will shape my children's. What I do remember are our camping trips, playing kick the can with my dad and uncles, shooting around in the driveway with my dad. The memories. I need to spend more time making memories with my kids instead of making more rules for my kids.

Technology: I spend way, way too much time on my phone especially. I always have it by my side. I always answer text messages within a minute of when I receive them (and wrongly expect others to do the same for me), always am checking the twitter feed, Facebook statuses, sports scores, etc. I didn't think it effected Olivia much, that is until my wife said she was playing dolls and at some point in the conversation she was having with her dolls, she said something along the lines of "daddy is busy on his phone." Conviction from dolls. Gotta love it. I need to spend more time getting on the floor with my kids and playing dolls with my little girl and leave my phone upstairs or maybe somewhere out of arms reach and only answer in case of emergency. They are only this age for so long, and then they will be too old to play with mom and dad anymore.

And finally, and most importantly, I need to spend a lot more time at the feet of Christ! He is the vine from which all life flows, why do I stay disconnected from Him so much? Why do I value sleep so much that I wake up just before my kids a lot of the time and only have 15-30 minutes to spend with my Lord and Savior of my soul? If he is truly my most valuable "possession" why do I spend so much more time with everything else and only save what seems to be leftovers for Him? I need have my nose buried in His Word, my hands raised in worship of His Name and my knees bowed in humble dependence on His sustenance.