Technological advancements have given us more and easier ways to stay connected with people, yet it has reduced interpersonal communication to rapid-fire text messages, status updates, grammatically-incorrect wall posts and 250-character tweets.
The idea of an almighty being who looks out for us is quite acceptable and even desired. But when He wants to be in the driver’s seat of our lives, we’re not willing to ride shotgun.
“I’m trying to live a life that’s simple, yet extraordinary.” That’s one of the phrases posted on my Facebook profile. I thought of it myself, and thought it sounded pretty cool. Initially I posted it to make myself seem somewhat philosophical and pique the interest of “my friends.” That’s what Facebook is for, right? To make ourselves seem more interesting than we actually are.
You enter your high school classroomand slip intothe wooden chair-desk as the late bell rings. You hastily pull out your notebook and text. It doesn’t “feel” right to just open the book, so you close it and try again. No luck — there’s still no sense of closure. The thought passes your mind to open and close it again, 10 times. You do it and sigh in relief. “Why am I doing this?” you ask yourself. “So that nothing bad will happen,” you reason. “Right, I must do this so that nothing bad will happen.”
Recent Comments