Too many times this fall God has pointed out something to me. I choose to ignore it mostly but I also know in the back of my mind that God will eventually get my attention. And I may not like the way that happens.
I have built my own "tower of Babel". I communicate with friends and family through all the luxuries afforded to me. I "im" my sister, email my parents, and facebook and text my friends. I was totally convicted of this yesterday as I was doing a client's hair and watched another client "talk" to a friend. Only she wasn't talking to her friend, she was talking to her phone. She had voice texting on her phone and would speak what she wanted typed into the phone and hit send. The phone would then send her message to the recipient. Suddenly, I was thinking of how silly this is. We have so much to say to one another but we don't want to speak to each other. We want our voices to be carried through technology.
Why do we fear communication? Why do we choose to talk to each other in this way? It's so cold and impersonal. It shows the recipient that we are too busy to actually call them and speak to them so we will just do it this way. It's quicker and less committed.
We have no idea what it's like to have conversations anymore. Do we even know how? What would we say to each other if we sat face-to-face with our friends? What if we had one weekend with our closest friends where we had no access to a computer, cell phone, or land line phone? Could we survive?
Distracted driving is dangerous. A distracted life is empty and lonely. I will choose, starting now, to communicate with my loved ones with a voice, with my time, and with love and respect for them. Will you?
