Staying Connected

Every day you see it. People have cell phones. Laptops. They use skype, Google chat and voice, Facebook, MySpace, blogs, etc.
There is a deep need born in us from day 1 ; the need to be connected.

This factor drives business. At cell phone companies, many phones sync with FB and Google. They also have full keyboards for more conveniant texting. Heck, my phone even lets me write my blog on it. We pick on my husband for recently becoming a FB junkie. He went to a movie project and at the end of the week when he asked for phone numbers of people he wanted to stay in touch with, they each told him to look them up on FB. He got a little taste of this and has since become a "junkie" looking up people he hasn't heard from in years and keeping up with business possibilites.

It's crazy, really, how much this need for connection is accepted in this day and age. We assume that others are connected. I was on my way to a meeting yesterday and, realizing I didn't have the guy's phone number to tell him I was running late, I sent an email - hoping against hope his email was synced to his phone and it was. Its a safe bet to make that any form of contact is a good way to contact someone. No more leaving a message on an answering machiene and hoping they listen to it when they get home. Its all constant.


Something deep within us screams to be connected. It has been programmed into us to stay in touch - though we are misguided. Paul tells us to "pray without ceasing" (Thess 5:17). The gist of this is to stay in touch with God - stay connected - all the time. So - take the same enthusiasm you use when it comes to posting to your facebook, updating your blog, checking your email or texts - and apply that to your relationship with God.

Would it change things?