It is easy to take technology for granted. Our modem went out. And all of a sudden I could not go online, check my mail. It was going to be a few days before I receive a new modem from Century Link. And I was feeling something was missing and I could not wait until i received the replacement modem. I took it for granted, that I could go online every day. Fifty years ago there was no Internet or even an affordable home computer. And I don’t have one of those fancy cell phones that are really computers. I never forgot my sister balking to go into an area if there was no cell phone reception. The world is really connected. And it makes no difference. Wars are going on all over the world. Communication has not really improved.
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I never gave my left arm any thought. They operated on it in the last week. It was a surgical procedure to ready me for dialysis. Now I have some idea how my friend David feels: He is a guitarist who has to be careful how much he plays because he has a “bad” wrist.
My arm was sore and if I use it too much it hurts even more. I never gave my left arm any thought. What else am I taking for granted? I can’t drive too well and Christmas is coming up.
I don’t feel like shopping. Now the holiday is two weeks away and I do not feel like ordering gifts via the internet. And it is getting too late to do so. I just can’t do a whole lot with a sore left arm. It is hard not to feel sorry for myself.
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I do not believe communication is better because you can do it almost instantaneously. Communication is as hard as ever. There are more wars going on in this world as ever.
Sure with the internet a message can be sent around the world in seconds. So what! It is just quicker to make mistakes in judgment. Cell phones keep getting more sophisticated. The saturation time has not changed. You can absorb data no quicker.
Everywhere you go others can be seen with cell phones attached to their ears as if they grew there. They really are a great distraction– one of many today.
True communication is always better face to face. And it takes time. And effort and the ability to listen to each other carefully and well. None of that is any easier.
Maybe, even harder. There is the delusion true communication is occurring. It is as hard as ever. That has not changed at all in this world of almost instantaneous communication.
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Every thing is a privilege and it is so easy to take every privilege we have for granted until we lose it. I was so used to have the internet until our computer broke down. Now there were all kinds of things I could no longer do: for one I no longer had E Mail, something I use every day.
I did not have access to my stored files. I could no longer access the internet. All of this I took for granted when the truth was every thing I have is a privilege. Every thing is by grace.
There are so many other things that are privileges, simple things: like being able to type, talk, move. My aunt lost all those abilities when she had a severe stroke. Everything is a privilege and often we don’t understand that until we lose that privilege. Everything is by grace. And may I never forget that.
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