Losing touch? pt2
Gone are the days when you had to stand in a queue, wait your turn or rush around the busy city centre trying to fit in all your last minute purchases before the shops close for the weekend.
With the introduction of the Internet you can shop, bank, and even order a take-away without having to leave the comfort of your armchair.
We have drive through restaurants, self service check-outs and cash dispensers in the wall – all to enable us to live our own lives without having to endure interruption from anyone along the way.
In fact, we could live a perfectly ordinary day without having to leave the house at all. Simply wake up, reach for the nearest laptop and you’re set up for the rest of the day.
You can send and receive emails, arrange meetings, conduct video conferences, do the weekly food shop, buy a birthday present for a loved one, check up on local, national and world news and weather, catch up with old friends via social networking, get a degree, watch a video podcast of Sundays church service and finally order dinner and download a movie for a quiet night in.
Bliss!
Or is it?
“It is not good for man to be alone”
God
The thing is, we weren’t created to live a solo existence. We were never supposed to stay in our own little bubble.
We were created with an inbuilt longing to connect. To engage with the world around us, learn from each other, help each other, laugh and cry together and enjoy the journey as a community.
Just like a baby who wants for nothing can often cry simply because they want held, we can have all the success, power and money we can find – but there will always be an unfulfilled desire to connect.
Lets begin to share life. Allow someone to interrupt your day with a smile, join the crowd at the supermarket, go to the cinema, and engage with the world God has created for us. Be part of the journey.
We might even bump into each other in a queue somewhere down the line.
Live, Love and Die Happy
Craig
