When I was a boy we had a small 13 inch color television set in our
living room. It had a knob to change the channels on it. We rarely
turned that knob, however. We lived in the country and our rusty, old
antenna could only pick up one channel clearly. If it was cloudy
outside, I could go out and hand-turn the antenna half way around to try
and pick up a second network, but usually it was only static. When I
would go to school my friend who lived in town would describe all of the
shows he watched on the channels we couldn't get and I would share the
shows I watched that he didn't get to see. It was a fun way to pass an
afternoon especially if it was raining at recess.
These days I
have cable with over one hundred channels. I can click my remote through
them at lightening speed. More often than not, however, I find myself
watching some rerun from my childhood on an oldies station. On my
computer there are shows, videos, and stories from all over the world.
Yet, time and time again I find myself getting bored, turning it off,
and picking up an old book to read instead. My daughter has a smart
phone that she can work with a skill that makes my head spin. She can
get any information she needs from the internet in mere seconds. Still,
it seems a bit too fast for me at times. I don't mind slowly browsing
through the dictionary or an encyclopedia instead.
Sometimes I
think I was born a little too early for this world. Yet, one thing that
I do know is that in this crazy, mixed-up, super-information society you
still need to find the right wavelength.
You still need to tune
into God. You still need to turn your antenna to love. You still need to
connect daily with kindness. Without these things life has no meaning.
Without these things you gain no wisdom and have no joy. Without these
things your soul is just static.
Finding the Right Wavelight
Today's Bible Verse:
"But God put his love on the line for us by offering his Son in
sacrificial death while we were of no use whatever to him." (Rom 5:8,
MSG)
Finding the Right Wavelight
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