Yesterday while posting signs for the opening of our Life Center tomorrow, I was chatting with a local businessperson. The conversation ranged from the Life Center to their business, the local Chamber of Commerce when all of a sudden I received a text message from one of our youth. Laughing I put it away to answer later.
We then began to talk about the world of technology. Computers, PDA's, text messaging, and blogging...communication devices we use to connect and network and yet...
What happened to the good ol' conversation? Talking face to face, even voice to voice, it seems that texting is preferable to a phone conversation.
Is it because we can use the technology to communicate without really communicating? What? Yes communicating without really communicating.
Sure there will be those who argue with me that texting, emailing, blogging, etc...is communicating, but does it communicate our real feelings, our emotional environment, does it tell people about my soul and its condition?
Face to face we can see the condition of the life we are communicating with. We can hide it with a clever facade. We can disguise the pain with embarrassing laughter and a smile. But spending real time with real people helps us connect, network in a way we might not be able to electronically.
I blog, I text, I email, but I find the most pleasure in my life in the pleasant conversations I have. Hearing the voice and seeing the face, the eyes, the body language of the person I am connecting with and WOW it speaks volumes to me.
Ending our conversation yesterday I said "...thanks, I think I know what I want to blog about tomorrow."
John 14:9 - Jesus replied, "I have been with all of you for a long time. Don't you know me yet, Philip?
Three years of face to face with Jesus and this is the outcome...how much more should we consider face to face opportunities and set the electronic devices aside just for a while?
We then began to talk about the world of technology. Computers, PDA's, text messaging, and blogging...communication devices we use to connect and network and yet...
What happened to the good ol' conversation? Talking face to face, even voice to voice, it seems that texting is preferable to a phone conversation.
Is it because we can use the technology to communicate without really communicating? What? Yes communicating without really communicating.
Sure there will be those who argue with me that texting, emailing, blogging, etc...is communicating, but does it communicate our real feelings, our emotional environment, does it tell people about my soul and its condition?
Face to face we can see the condition of the life we are communicating with. We can hide it with a clever facade. We can disguise the pain with embarrassing laughter and a smile. But spending real time with real people helps us connect, network in a way we might not be able to electronically.
I blog, I text, I email, but I find the most pleasure in my life in the pleasant conversations I have. Hearing the voice and seeing the face, the eyes, the body language of the person I am connecting with and WOW it speaks volumes to me.
Ending our conversation yesterday I said "...thanks, I think I know what I want to blog about tomorrow."
John 14:9 - Jesus replied, "I have been with all of you for a long time. Don't you know me yet, Philip?
Three years of face to face with Jesus and this is the outcome...how much more should we consider face to face opportunities and set the electronic devices aside just for a while?
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