Posted 156 days ago
Tech Liturgy
Come to Jesus, all you who are overwhelmed by the pace of life
Lord, we come to you, worn out from our busyness and distracted by so many things that seek our attention.
Put on his yoke, learn his ways.
Lord, teach us your ways. Teach us your rhythms of work and rest, of community and solitude, and of communication and silence.
Come, all you who are wired into the cares of daily life. Lay down your tools of entertainment and trade.
Lord, we intentionally turn off our cell phones, computers, and TV, not because they are evil, but because you desire our full attention.
Come, you who are thirsty; drink from the river of life!
Lord, help us to emerge from streaming technology. Give us wisdom to see beyond the marvel of a wireless world and into the marvelous world of your “Good Creation”.
Come, you who desire to know the deep things of God.
Lord, we do desire to know you. We desire your wisdom, your courage, your compassion and love for the world. Help us, we pray, to walk in the streams of Living Water. Help us to use technology for good and not evil. Help us, we pray, to always connect to your purposes in our lives and world, that we may delight in your will and walk in your ways, to the Glory of your name.
Through Christ our Lord we pray, Amen
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Very timely discussion of the place of technology in the spirituality of the MS Community.
I have a love-hate relationship with tech. I love it for what it can do for me and I hate it for what it can do to me. I have always believed that high-touch must trump high-tech for the Incarnation of our Lord Jesus Christ taught us that he came to be “with us”.
During Holy Week leading up to Easter, my husband and I were vacationing in Maui where our hotel did not have telephone and TV in the room. Yes, I had my cell-phone with me but I’d rather spend my time talking to our friends we were vacationing with. I felt so good to have fasted from tech that week.
Yet, at the same time, tech has become a necessary part of our lives in 2010!
So it’s time for someone to write a book called “Technospirituality”.
Theresa Ip Froehlich » 151 days ago » Link