Stress, Worry, & Technology

OOO technology...we definitely have a love/hate relationship. This would be the third time I am attempting to post a blog and retyping my thoughts on the books I have been reading. While typing on the computer is much faster (well, usually), I can't help but to think if I had written this on paper...I would have been done and on my way a long time ago. Alas, I didn't. So I am once again spending time rewriting a work I have already written twice. Oryx and Crake also see the negative side of technology. Society has developed pigs, called pigoons, that replicate human body parts. This way if a person needs an organ of some sort, they just replace the old one with a new one from the pigoon. This of course helps extend the life of any human, but it also has a negative affect on the food the people now eat. Since there are so many pigoons being produced, there becomes an excessive number of pigoons and a lackof everything else. So the people are now stuck eating pigoon pie, pancakes, and even popcorn! --yuck. Glad, I am not living in this world. I really have not been able to enjoy this book. Perhaps because it uses fowl language, has random flashbacks, and is set so far in the future that I cannot imagine it. It does give me insight to what can happen with technology...the good and the bad. My favorite qoute from the section I read was: "Each one of us must tread the path laid out before him, or her, [...]and each path is unique. It is not the nature of the path itself that should concern the seeker, but the grace and strength and patience with which every one of us follows the sometime challenging..." Some food for thought.

I also continue to read Crazy Love. I now understand the title of this book...because I love this book. The chapter that I read this week really hit home. It talks about living every moment to the fullest. While so many people have talked about this that it has almost become mundane, Francis Chan puts it in a completely different perspective. He tells readers that days fly by because we are completely caught up in ourselves and rarely even think about God. When I think about my day that is completely on target. I get up in the morning and say a short little prayer before I pull my tired body out of bed with a grown, I get ready, and then I am running around all over the place like a chicken with its head cut off. I come home exhausted and ready to go to bed right away. I pull out my Bible tiredly read a small portion of it, and the fall to sleep talking to God. Not exactly a life completely dedicated to God. It's a life that is full of worry but mostly stress. Up until reading this chapter, I thought that this was the way life was supposed to be--no biggie. But the book defines stress and worrying as this: "Worry implies that we don't quite trust that God is big enough, powerful enough, or loving enough to take care of what's happening in our lives. Stress says that the things we are involved in are important enough to merit our impatience, our lack of grace towards others, or our grip of control." WOW...chew on that for a while.
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