Good Morning Readers
Welcome to WFM. It is Easter Week. Those who were singing Hosanna in the highest...save us now... are now screaming, "Crucify Him!" How can anyone explain or understand it?
Wishing Everyone a happy week.
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Monday's Devotional
Something In Common
Chairs for 120 were lined up in perfect rows with an aisle down the center. We sat in the third row and waited for the class to begin. When the presenter finally introduced herself, 70 heads turned towards her. Two hours flew by as the nurse described what to expect when having and recovering from a kidney transplant. Towards the end, the transplant nurse took some time to explain what we can do to be ready for when our opportunity comes to have surgery. Her list included healthy eating, exercise, giving up smoking, maintaining blood sugars, controlling blood pressure, etc
Even though we didn't greet or meet others in the room - there was a connectedness - as all of us were either planning on being a transplant recipient or a support person. We were all there by invitation and although we might wish we didn't need to be there - it was a privilege to belong.
Sipping some water and munching on a yogurt parfait in the lobby of the hotel later I noticed attendees from another meeting room coming into the cafe for a drink or snack before heading home. The sign on their conference room door was "Models and Social Media." I caught the eye of one woman and we exchanged smiles.
Driving home I was thinking of the very different purposes between the two groups meeting in the hotel - then I wondered: if our nurse had spoken to the models she would likely have given the same to do list she gave us. If their social media speaker had addressed our group - perhaps they would have encouraged us to be positive and proactive in taking care of ourselves and diligent in communicating in ways that those around us can hear and understand.
Dear Lord, thank You for the reminder that we all have something in common with each other. Whether we have the same health crisis, the same job goals, or not, we all need patience and understanding. Please give each of us eyes to see and hearts that understand how to reach out to others in kindness and acceptance. In Jesus name, amen.
Written by Mary M. Wilkins
Even though we didn't greet or meet others in the room - there was a connectedness - as all of us were either planning on being a transplant recipient or a support person. We were all there by invitation and although we might wish we didn't need to be there - it was a privilege to belong.
Sipping some water and munching on a yogurt parfait in the lobby of the hotel later I noticed attendees from another meeting room coming into the cafe for a drink or snack before heading home. The sign on their conference room door was "Models and Social Media." I caught the eye of one woman and we exchanged smiles.
Driving home I was thinking of the very different purposes between the two groups meeting in the hotel - then I wondered: if our nurse had spoken to the models she would likely have given the same to do list she gave us. If their social media speaker had addressed our group - perhaps they would have encouraged us to be positive and proactive in taking care of ourselves and diligent in communicating in ways that those around us can hear and understand.
Always be humble, gentle, and patient, accepting each other in love.
Ephesians 4:2 NCV
Dear Lord, thank You for the reminder that we all have something in common with each other. Whether we have the same health crisis, the same job goals, or not, we all need patience and understanding. Please give each of us eyes to see and hearts that understand how to reach out to others in kindness and acceptance. In Jesus name, amen.
Written by Mary M. Wilkins
Tim McGraw performs "Humble and Kind"
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20 Signs Technology Has Taken Over \Your Life
- Your stationery is more cluttered than Warren Beatty's address book. The letterhead lists a fax number, your cell number, 2 email addresses, your Facebook address, your MySpace address, and your Twitter address. In essence, you have conceded that the first page of any letter you write *is* letterhead.
- You have never sat through an entire movie without having at least one device on your body beep or buzz.
- You think of the gadgets in your office as "friends," but you forget to send your father a birthday card.
- You disdain people who still are on "dial-up".
- You have an iPod playing in your ears, iPhone in your hand, and laptop on your lap - and you're somehow using them all at the same time...
- When you go into a computer store, you eavesdrop on a salesperson talking with customers -- and you butt in to correct him and spend the next twenty minutes answering the customers' questions, while the salesperson stands by silently, nodding his head.
- You use the phrase "digital compression" in a conversation without thinking how strange your mouth feels when you say it.
- You constantly find yourself in groups of people to whom you say the phrase "digital compression." Everyone understands what you mean, and you are not surprised or disappointed that you don't have to explain it.
- You know the e-mail addresses of 10 of your closest friends by heart, but you have to look up your own social security number.
- You stop saying "phone number" and replace it with "voice number," since we all know the majority of phone lines in any house are plugged into contraptions that talk to other contraptions.
- You have 1000 "friends" on Facebook and get tweeted by all the great tweeting Twitterers, yet somehow have this nagging feeling that you're actually LESS connected than you were just a few short years ago - you know, when you actually TALKED to the few people that you really WANTED to talk to?
- You sign Christmas cards by putting :-) next to your signature.
- Off the top of your head, you can think of nineteen keystroke symbols that are far more clever than :-).
- You are able to argue persuasively that Ross Perot's phrase "electronic town hall" makes more sense than the term "information superhighway," but you don't because, after all, the man still uses hand-drawn pie charts.
- You would rather get more dots per inch than miles per gallon.
- While contemporaries swap stories about their recent hernia surgeries, you compare texting-induced finger strain with a nine-year-old.
- You rotate your screen savers more frequently than your automobile tires.
- You have ended friendships because of irreconcilably different opinions about which is better -- the mouse or the track pad.
- You spend more time on Facebook reading such important status updates as "I am now home" or "I am now going to the bathroom", than you do praying or reading your Bible (ouch!!)
- You understand all the jokes in this message. If so, my friend, technology has taken over your life. We suggest, for your own good, that you go lie under a tree and write a haiku. And don't use a laptop.
- Your stationery is more cluttered than Warren Beatty's address book. The letterhead lists a fax number, your cell number, 2 email addresses, your Facebook address, your MySpace address, and your Twitter address. In essence, you have conceded that the first page of any letter you write *is* letterhead.
- You have never sat through an entire movie without having at least one device on your body beep or buzz.
- You think of the gadgets in your office as "friends," but you forget to send your father a birthday card.
- You disdain people who still are on "dial-up".
- You have an iPod playing in your ears, iPhone in your hand, and laptop on your lap - and you're somehow using them all at the same time...
- When you go into a computer store, you eavesdrop on a salesperson talking with customers -- and you butt in to correct him and spend the next twenty minutes answering the customers' questions, while the salesperson stands by silently, nodding his head.
- You use the phrase "digital compression" in a conversation without thinking how strange your mouth feels when you say it.
- You constantly find yourself in groups of people to whom you say the phrase "digital compression." Everyone understands what you mean, and you are not surprised or disappointed that you don't have to explain it.
- You know the e-mail addresses of 10 of your closest friends by heart, but you have to look up your own social security number.
- You stop saying "phone number" and replace it with "voice number," since we all know the majority of phone lines in any house are plugged into contraptions that talk to other contraptions.
- You have 1000 "friends" on Facebook and get tweeted by all the great tweeting Twitterers, yet somehow have this nagging feeling that you're actually LESS connected than you were just a few short years ago - you know, when you actually TALKED to the few people that you really WANTED to talk to?
- You sign Christmas cards by putting :-) next to your signature.
- Off the top of your head, you can think of nineteen keystroke symbols that are far more clever than :-).
- You are able to argue persuasively that Ross Perot's phrase "electronic town hall" makes more sense than the term "information superhighway," but you don't because, after all, the man still uses hand-drawn pie charts.
- You would rather get more dots per inch than miles per gallon.
- While contemporaries swap stories about their recent hernia surgeries, you compare texting-induced finger strain with a nine-year-old.
- You rotate your screen savers more frequently than your automobile tires.
- You have ended friendships because of irreconcilably different opinions about which is better -- the mouse or the track pad.
- You spend more time on Facebook reading such important status updates as "I am now home" or "I am now going to the bathroom", than you do praying or reading your Bible (ouch!!)
- You understand all the jokes in this message. If so, my friend, technology has taken over your life. We suggest, for your own good, that you go lie under a tree and write a haiku. And don't use a laptop.
Does God have a place in this?
Where does Jesus fit in?
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_____Wishing Everyone a happy and blessed Easter Week,
Prayers lifted up for you
by
The Writing Staff
of
Women's Focus Ministry
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