March 15, 2009

• A thought a day

  What happened to the good ol’ days where everyone had a blog and would post daily random, insignificant and sometimes quite significant ruminations, realizations and revelations?  Perhaps quick, short Facebook statuses is as good as it’s gonna get from here on out in terms of getting to know what’s on the hearts and minds of our friends — at least via the world wide web.  But while statuses have been somewhat satisfactory in satisfying my craving for connectedness while admittingly addressing my attention deficiency (a product of growing up in this tecnhologically driven generation), the other day, I finally woke up to the reality that the neglect of journaling in my life has resulted in the lack of ruminations and revelations.  Because not only did I stop blogging but I also stopped journaling.  My attention deficiency has therefore resulted in a spiritual deficiency as well.  I’m addicted to the world wide web… but not addicted to God.  Recently, being chained to my sofa (for fear of vomitting) has especially meant a craving for connection to PEOPLE in the rest of the world – and how else does someone in our generation ‘connect’ but through FB, email, blogs, television and the news?  My computer is open to Gmail, Ymail, FB, Xanga, and FoxNews just about all the hours I’m awake.  Yet all this time connected to the web somehow never quite fulfilled my craving for real, soul connection.  How do I find real, soul connection but through God Himself?  How hard can it be to shut off my computer every once in awhile, sit down and journal?  Perhaps my mind keeps fluttering in a million different directions because there’s a million things I just haven’t written down yet.  Perhaps it’s time to start over again.  Journaling in my journal…and one thought (one blog entry) a day.

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