I watched a girl text in the bookstore today.
(…which was somewhat ironic since she didn’t have a book at all. I guess she was reading the book of the new millennium; ever changing and developing cyber-biographies. Cyber-biographies are the hot genre these days. Okay, actually they aren’t, but maybe they should be. A friend of mine is writing a faux-biography. I think that’s enough parenthetical thought. {don’t you?} Anyway…)
She was obviously enjoying the conversation. The corners of her mouth rose and fell; smiling wryly at someone not at all in the building. It’s powerful how conversation creates intimacy within a relationship even without proximity.
We live in a whole new world that way. I often wonder what negative impacts texting, IM-ing, and chatting will have on true social connections in our society. Will our truly human network skills become antiques compared to our ability to speedily ‘emoticon’ a person?
And yet, in the midst of my curiosity, I remembered the ultimate uniqueness of a life of prayer. There is no conversation we have that even compares to the divine wonder of prayer. Prayer is a conversation influenced not only by God’s proximity but also His (in)visibility. Many who struggle to pray with confidence tend to excel at texting. May I always approach the throne of grace with confidence! May I remember that He always longs to speak to us, He’s always near, and He’s ever-listening!
c ya later… got a txt, lol! J
