A Place of Solitude

Recently my cell stopped working. I have one of those smart phones and I was so excited to get it. I could do most everything on my phone. I had downloaded several apps on the phone. But a couple of months ago I started to notice my phone getting stuck. It would just freeze up. Eventually it started to work again. But this last week it started to do the same thing. But this time it would not come back on. It was just stuck. So I told my husband about it. And he determined that I had too many apps on my phone and that was why it was freezing up. All my apps were overloading the system. So he told me the only thing he could do was to set it back to the original factory settings and I would lose everything I had put on there. So I agreed to let him put it back to the factory settings. 
I think sometimes in life we get this way. We have to many apps in our life. Too many distractions. And sometimes God calls us to go back to factory settings. To a place of solitude with Him. We get so much stuff in our life that we get stuck and nothing works. And sometimes God has to reset us. That is where I have been the last six months. And God has taken things out of my life. He has taken certain people out of my life. And for a while I was wondering what was going on. There are seasons I think that God will do this with us. Where God is wanting to draw us closer to Him. And we can't do that with everything else competing for our attention. So here I am. I really have not much contact with any of my friends. Only just a couple have I seen from time to time. But I feel it is a time to draw back. A time to go back to factory settings and focus on God alone. That is what I will be doing this summer. I need to get some priorities strait. Get things in order with God. And draw closer to Him. So I feel I have been officially set to factory settings. And I am not allowed to add anything else to my life right now.