I f**king hate the Iphone

I joined two couples at a local restaurant.  One of them brought their 5-year old daughter with them, which itself is not a problem.  I did, however, start getting agitated when her father whipped out his latest Iphone and played games with her throughout the entire dinner.  He definitely is not a dumb guy, having a high tech career and all, but he just didn’t have the common sense and courtesy of putting away his f**king phone while in company of others.  He just could not keep his eyes off the bright screen for more than 10 seconds.  It’s an addiction, a bad one, and it’s another form of this society’s downward spiral towards deterioration.  At any give time, a phone should NEVER be more important than the real person/people we are interacting with.

Love is Everything

A friend's Facebook posting: Never, I repeat, NEVER, get married. It's stupid. And when things go to shit, then you won't have the legal garbage to deal with. Just live together. That's commitment enough. The end.
My comment: We can dirt dive the rest of our lives, to be safe. Love, like skydiving, is risky and dangerous, but is everything.

Moving Mountains

Joseph is taking off for Jordan, Israel and Palestine today, to make an impact, to make friends, to let the untouched people know that God is love.  He, along with seven other kids and five adults, will spread out, village to village, with no plan, no food and no money.  They will let the Holy Sprit guide them, hour-by-hour, day-by-day.
Sonnie and Jonathan are going to Northern India on Tuesday with the same mission. She will be pushing all 80 pounds of Jonathan in a stroller, since he is only able to walk short distance.
The believers in the first century had no power over the government.  The only thing they could do was pray.  Eventually, they moved mountains.
We have many more resources, and of course, power of prayer.  There should be nothing we can’t do.

Smartphones

A man was bragging how he had everything stored in his Blackberry (his driver’s license #, bank account #, birthdays, phone #’s, appointments, names, directions, GPS locations, etc.) and how he didn’t have to remember a thing.  Should he be proud?

Almost a third of customers who walk in the store to pay their phone bills, do not know their own phone numbers, month after month, year after year.  Yup, we are definitely getting dumber and dumber while the phones are getting smarter.

Pain

A friend died a few weeks ago.  The heaviness of the heart is somewhat fading, but I keep remembering Paul, a friend who decided to end his own life more than twenty five years ago.

I kept asking myself "why?" back then, and I keep asking the same thing today.  It’s hard to imagine sometimes, but the pain is NECESSARY and it ALWAYS fades.