On Tuesday nights, my wife and I have the unbelievable honor and privilege of helping with a small group for our teens who attend youth group here at Calvary. I remember vividly how bewildering adolescence and high school was, what with the mixture of hormones, the burgeoning awareness of one’s identity, the pressure to conform AND be individual, and trying to gain footing in a world that seems to grow exponentially the closer one gets to college.
No matter the age or era or decade, those high school issues never change. However, I’ve started to become aware of one gadget that my generation never really had in high school: cell phones. Those things are now ubiquitous, but I remember they were a rare commodity until about halfway through college. Cell phones nowadays pretty much have become another essential appendage to the modern teenager. Take it away, you might as well have hacked away a limb–or two.
Ironically, it’s not talking that I see the most of; it’s texting. It’s the quick, typed messages back and forth that I see most cell phones being used for. And it’s not just cell phones that have popped everywhere. There’s iPods along with the internet and television which are increasingly becoming more and more portable and more and more easily accessible. The background noise of the world is starting to get louder and louder, and I’ve begun wondering, what exactly is this costing us?
Psalm 46:10, “Be still, and know that I am God.”
May God richly bless your week!
– Matt
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Quiet Solitude, We Hardly Knew Ye, Part I
March 12, 2009
Calvary
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Matt
On Tuesday nights, my wife and I have the unbelievable honor and privilege of helping with a small group for our teens who attend youth group here at Calvary. I remember vividly how bewildering adolescence and high school was, what with the mixture of hormones, the burgeoning awareness of one’s identity, the pressure to conform AND be individual, and trying to gain footing in a world that seems to grow exponentially the closer one gets to college.
No matter the age or era or decade, those high school issues never change. However, I’ve started to become aware of one gadget that my generation never really had in high school: cell phones. Those things are now ubiquitous, but I remember they were a rare commodity until about halfway through college. Cell phones nowadays pretty much have become another essential appendage to the modern teenager. Take it away, you might as well have hacked away a limb–or two.
Ironically, it’s not talking that I see the most of; it’s texting. It’s the quick, typed messages back and forth that I see most cell phones being used for. And it’s not just cell phones that have popped everywhere. There’s iPods along with the internet and television which are increasingly becoming more and more portable and more and more easily accessible. The background noise of the world is starting to get louder and louder, and I’ve begun wondering, what exactly is this costing us?
Psalm 46:10, “Be still, and know that I am God.”
May God richly bless your week!
– Matt
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