When it’s sunny and warm….
When it’s sunny but the air has a crisp feel to it….
When it’s sunny with a cool breeze…
When it’s like that…
When it’s nice outside…
…sometimes I just want to suddenly run really fast for a few seconds
…sometimes I just want to stand there with my arms out
…sometimes I just stop and stare up at the sky
…sometimes I just look around, in front and behind
…but most of the time, that’s when I feel God.
We have signs posted around the business area near the office directing people to where our store is – at the intersections, at stop signs, etc. Last week I drove by one of the signs and someone had put a piece of paper over our sign and it said written in black marker, “God wants His people to read God’s word too.”
My thoughts were…really? I know, I know, let him who is without sin cast the first stone. But I couldn’t help but think what a horrible act of witnessing that is. I’m assuming that the person who put that there is somehow a follower of Jesus especially because of the content of the note but maybe not. If it is, I feel slightly embarrassed, not to say I’m a great witness or even a good witness but really….to basically “vandalize” someone’s sign to put up that note? What does that make people think of Christians?
I had told myself I wasn’t even going to tell anyone that the sign was covered because I was embarrassed by it. But I accidentally forgot and mentioned it. What do people then think of me if they know I’m a Christian?
Just don’t cover up people’s signs like that! There are other ways of witnessing….and that is not a good way in my opinion.
Right now I am really really itching to get a smartphone. I wouldn’t be surprised to see in a few years, everyone with a smartphone. Once, people lived without cell phones, today most of us can’t imagine living without one. Once, we lived without internet too, now we can’t either. Combining the two together, it won’t be long before everyone relies on this pieced together technology called the smartphone.
A lot of people I know are already glued to their laptops/computers/desktops but it isn’t really THAT they are addicted to, it’s the internet. People check their email constantly during the day. Refresh refresh. People are obsessed with facebook, twitter, and other social networks of the sort. Refresh refresh. We must know what is going on with everyone and everything immediately. Technology makes us impatient. We must also notify everyone what we are doing and what we are thinking about anything and anyone at any given moment.
The next phone I get will be a smartphone, no doubt about it. I’m willing to pay for that type of access. My eagerness stems from the fact that my coworker just purchased an iphone and she already had a smartphone and is thinking of selling it. I need to find out how much it costs to upgrade. The other alternative is to wait until my contract ends which is not until june or august which right now, seems like a long time away.
Another device to be tied down to – our lives our wired – we’ll have access to “the world”, to our friends, to our families, and even to work. Soon enough we won’t be able to let go, we’re already really close to that point.
Is it wrong to want something nice for yourself?
It feels so odd…and it almost kind of feels wrong…
I never thought of myself as materialistic…until now.
Greedy perhaps?