Melody and I went to a
restaurant for lunch the other day, not just for the food, but to get away from
packing and enjoy a little quiet time together. While we sat there talking with
one another I noticed several couples (who looked like husbands and wives),
sitting at their tables, not talking, in fact not paying any attention to one
another at all. They instead had their cell phones out, texting and checking
their email and possibly their Facebook account.
Sadly, this is not an
unusual occurrence today at all. Everywhere you look you see those little
electronic devices in the hands of people around you.
What about you and the
other special people in your life? Do you need to send a text to the person
across the table to communicate with them? If you do, maybe you need to
consider life without electronics.
My friend Ron sent me
the following little story that makes a good point. "We had a power outage
at our house this morning and my PC, laptop, TV, DVD, iPad & my new
surround sound music system were all shut down. Then I discovered that my Cell
phone battery was flat and to top it off it was raining outside.
I went into the kitchen
to make coffee and then I remembered that this also needs power, so I sat and
talked with my wife for a few hours… She seems like a nice person."
I know you have heard
the verse a thousand times, but notice it again for me, in Genesis 2:24 we read: "Therefore
shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife:
and they shall be one flesh."
You know this is not
just a suggestion from God, it is actually him telling us the way it is suppose
to be! In the original language the word "Cleve" has
the idea of "to stick to". Now there are a lot of
implications to that idea, but how close do you stick to your husband/wife? How
can you stick with someone who you don't spend time with?
Maybe you should try one
day without electronics. I know it would be difficult; you have the demands of
your job and your connections to others in life, but what about the ones you
are suppose to be sharing your life with? Try it sometime, you might find out
that the person across the table from you is really a nice person.
My wife and I took an
extended vacation recently with a total of about 10 days driving alone in the
car. We took a selection of CD's to listen to if we wanted, but do you know
what we did, we talked instead (that's a regular thing for us). We are
interested in one another, in our cares, or concerns, our likes and dislikes,
the things that worry us and the things that delight us. After almost 49 years
together we still enjoy sharing sunrises and sunsets and one another's company.
We still "cleave" together because that's what God intended for us to
do.
Marriage is hard enough
without all of the confusion electronics bring to it. Try doing without them
sometime, you just might discover the person you fell in love with to begin
with.
Russ Lawson
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