December 26, 2010

  • Prayer vs a cell phone

         Waking up by a phone call realizing you are late to start a Christmas day can cause a haze of movement completed in a mental fog  until you are fully awake.  Sometimes, those actions done in a fog can lead to losing something like a cell phone for the rest of the day. Cellphones are small enough to fall and slip in a place out of sight or into something to be taken to anywhere.

         Frustration then is built up as one tries to find something without success which can create more mental blindness in coming with plans of possibilities to find it. So, I just left for a day away about an hour away from home to spend it with family. That can be a good thing to visit ones family on Christmas without a cell phone, in ways it becomes an unintentional gift of less distractions of this world, friends, and work in that tiny clever box of technology.

          Finally leaving without finding the phone as realized I would even be more late if I stayed to find it. The drive started in silence and conviction hit me of how dependant we have become on that little box of technology. My alarms on the phone failed to wake me on my last shift of work despite the alarms being set and not going off. Yet, the conviction went deeper than the dependence I have developed in daily living with it as a tool.  The cell phone can break down over time in not working as well.

          Had it become a replacement of prayer and dependance on God? I'm several decades into life and well remember the time without cell phones when stranded out in the middle of nowhere from driving an old car or other events that created a need to be able to call one for help. How much more did I use faith and prayer to call upon God to help me in sending somebody I knew near me or a stranger willing to help me? How many times did I have Jesus Christ to call on for help in those situations by prayer? In so many ways it has helped build my faith in what it is today by witness how God provided!!!

          Even waking up to my last shift of work without my cell phone alarm was done by a cat jumping around on my to wake me up from the issue of annoyance. I work unusual hours with creates a very unsual sleep patterns which waking up is greatly helped by an alarm. God knows my needs and helps me even in the little things. Yet, despite how He does help me I tend to forget it way to easily at times.

          To find my phone when I arrived home, I had arranged for my Mother to call me starting at a certain time until I called her back to let her know I found it. Yet, on the drive home as I spent most of it in prayer, the idea occurred to me to use my computer email to text my phone which would create a reason for it to ring. I called her before she had a chance to call me at the appointed time. Yet, more important, I had called on God by prayer which is a far greater source of so much more than any cell phone can offer anyone. Plus, one can't lose prayer like they can a cell phone!