Call now, and we’ll double your order!
It is so easy to disconnect from people today. We can email friends, put updates on MySpace, load pictures on Facebook, send thoughts on Twitter, and never have to see another human being. Technology has advanced to the point where we don’t even have to leave the house to work, we can do it all from the house while in our PJ’s!
Technology is replacing human contact for so many people. Any why not? Your computer won’t hurt your feelings or break your heart (unless it crashes!). It’s there when you want it, and if you want it to go away, you just turn it off. It never complains. Having a bad hair day? Your computer doesn’t care, your iPhone won’t tell, and your televisions is loaded with ways to get thinner and younger, all for $19.99.
And if you call now, they will even double your order!
But God didn’t make us to be solitary creatures with our faces jammed in front of computers 18 hours a day. He created us to be social beings. In Genesis, when God creates Adam He realizes very quickly that it isn’t good for him to be alone:
18 The LORD God said, “It is not good for the man to be alone. I will make a helper suitable for him.”
19 Now the LORD God had formed out of the ground all the beasts of the field and all the birds of the air. He brought them to the man to see what he would name them; and whatever the man called each living creature, that was its name. 20 So the man gave names to all the livestock, the birds of the air and all the beasts of the field.
But for Adam no suitable helper was found. 21 So the LORD God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep; and while he was sleeping, he took one of the man’s ribs and closed up the place with flesh. 22 Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man.23 The man said,
“This is now bone of my bones
and flesh of my flesh;
she shall be called ‘woman, ‘
for she was taken out of man.”Genesis 2: 18-23
In prison, if an inmate gets into trouble he or she is placed in solitary confinement. Setting someone apart, making them be alone, is a punishment. Yet we do it to ourselves everyday, even in the midst of others.
The next time you go out to eat, look at those around you. How many are interacting, and how many have their faces buried in their technology, texting or surfing the internet?
Separation. Aloneness. Even in the crowd.
Today make an effort to get out, to talk to people face to face, rather than modem to modem. If you know someone who can’t get out due to illness, age or other issues, call them and go visit. Bring the world to them.
Reboot relationships instead of your computer!
January 22nd, 2009 at 9:44 am
absolutely!!!
January 22nd, 2009 at 5:36 pm
good blog
January 26th, 2009 at 4:37 am
Loneliness is epidemic in our society according to the experts. You have given so many of the ways we wall off and disconnect Loved this…and so agree with all you said.