So thankful to be alive today, because I believe God is working on my own heart. At one time I thought that we should censor some of the sites on the internet. But to fight a non stop waterfall of disgusting material with band aids doesn't really or truly teach or protect us from anything. Instead we should be accountable for everything we do with our 5 senses. We touch, taste, see, listen, and smell and those experiences guide our thoughts and our actions. We choose many of senses that guide our life. So when we struggle with a particular sense, thought or action we should let 2 or 3 people we really trust to ask them to talk with us, pray for us and help us out of the hole we are digging for ourselves.
Also I do believe that God has really shown me how much I need to be more present in the moment so that I can be more loving of the new people God brings into my life. It is so easy to pull out my phone when I want to dodge the people near me. It is a clear signal of I want to meet someone else, or be in a different place. I want to start using my cellphone more like the old answering machines we used to have at home. I check it in the morning, and when I get home at night. The rest of the day I will make an effort to not look at my phone, play games or keep from meeting new people.
Strangers are friends we have not met yet. And often these phones that are supposed to connect us to life are actually separating us from even starting a conversation with a new person. Or even noticing ways we can be of service to someone in the same room. Love is only real when it is an action. Being observant, smiling at people, open a door for someone, answer a question, ask a question, listening and remembering details about a specific person, moment, song in the background, the day you met them, their name. When you know a person's name you can pray for them to be all that God has molded them to be.
Most of us do not need to be on call for every phonecall, text or email we get throughout the day. So put down the tool and just use it to schedule time with people we love or want to be friends with. Every tool has a purpose. The cellphone can be like a sledgehammer to build a house or a friendship, but it also can be used to avoid contact with people near us and smash or destroy a house or a friendship because we use it to escape the people God already has put into our lives.
You probably didn't know your best friends the day before you met them, but God put both of you in the same place and moment to start memories and lives that can be connected forever.
Also I do believe that God has really shown me how much I need to be more present in the moment so that I can be more loving of the new people God brings into my life. It is so easy to pull out my phone when I want to dodge the people near me. It is a clear signal of I want to meet someone else, or be in a different place. I want to start using my cellphone more like the old answering machines we used to have at home. I check it in the morning, and when I get home at night. The rest of the day I will make an effort to not look at my phone, play games or keep from meeting new people.
Strangers are friends we have not met yet. And often these phones that are supposed to connect us to life are actually separating us from even starting a conversation with a new person. Or even noticing ways we can be of service to someone in the same room. Love is only real when it is an action. Being observant, smiling at people, open a door for someone, answer a question, ask a question, listening and remembering details about a specific person, moment, song in the background, the day you met them, their name. When you know a person's name you can pray for them to be all that God has molded them to be.
Most of us do not need to be on call for every phonecall, text or email we get throughout the day. So put down the tool and just use it to schedule time with people we love or want to be friends with. Every tool has a purpose. The cellphone can be like a sledgehammer to build a house or a friendship, but it also can be used to avoid contact with people near us and smash or destroy a house or a friendship because we use it to escape the people God already has put into our lives.
You probably didn't know your best friends the day before you met them, but God put both of you in the same place and moment to start memories and lives that can be connected forever.
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