Religion

Our four-year-old loves to sing. She comes home from church singing snippets of tunes she learned in Sunday school, and the other day she launched into a loud version of “Oh, Be Careful Little Eyes What You See.” I remember this song from my own childhood, as a simple reminder that it matters what Christians look at, what we listen to, what we say, what we do, and where we go. There’s something so sweet about hearing her singing this tune, knowing that she is actually unwittingly pointing me to a better way to live.

“He said, ‘O LORD, the God of my master Abraham, please grant me success today, and show lovingkindness to my master Abraham.’”

Statistics show that human beings are more bored than ever. We’re more bored during work interactions, more bored during social interactions, and we’re bored when cell phones are present. Thirty- five years ago, if you had told Gen X kids that the coming era of technology was going to be utterly boring, we would have laughed in your face. We knew what kind of excitement we had to look forward to: flying cars, robot maids, and hot gourmet meals at the push of a button. The technology boom didn’t exactly wind up creating the kind of world we had seen on The Jetsons. Instead of forming a fascinating world of automation that freed us up to pursue noble interests, technology built a new way of thinking that, sadly, has caused us to think less.