ALL We're in a whirlwind of TIME, COMMUNICATION, INFORMATION. Get out of the HOT NEWS TO ENTER THIS NOTICE IS A SPORT ULTMA that many practices. DO NOT BREAK THIS SHOULD FROM TIME TO TIME? SHARE THIS ARTICLE ME THAT THEY WOULD HAVE SUGGESTED THAT ALL LOOK AT ANY TIME OF DAY OR THE WEEK A TIME TO STOP BEING NEAR THAT ARE FAR AWAY FROM THOSE WHO ARE NEAR, A TIME TO BE CLOSE TO THE NEAREST THAT IS OUR HEART AND THAT IS OUR NEIGHBOR, NEXT. A HUG
A comedian recently joked saying that modern information technologies have rendered obsolete a number of things most notable examples: the telephone directory and human courtesy. The same is true of the rest humano.Las today's information technology (the internet, email, programs like Facebook, or mobile phones, iPhones, handheld computers and similar devices) have made us the people more informed, efficient and communicative ever. We now have the ability, every day throughout the day, access to events, world news, entire libraries of information and detailed accounts of what our families and friends are doing at any time. Is the positive side of the equation.
Less wonderful is how it is affecting our lives, how it is changing our expectations and taking from the simple ability to pause, turn off the machines and rest. As we increasingly immersed in the world of mobile phones, text messages, e-mail, Facebook and general internet, we are beginning to live with the expectation that we must be constantly attentive to what is happening in the world and within our families and our friends. The expectation, express or implied, is that we are always free and available - and others. Before we used to send each other messages and letters, and waited for the answer within a few days, weeks or months. Now the expectation of an answer within minutes or hours, and we get impatient when we do not see this expectation fulfilled, and within ourselves we feel guilty when we ourselves do not satiisfacemos of others.
And so each day we enslaving more and feel more compelled to use their mobile phones or the Internet. For many of us find it now impossible to take us one day existentially rest, much less several weeks, and enjoy a genuine vacation. Rather, we feel the pressure on ourselves to constantly seek instant text messages, emails, phone messages, and the like, and for looking after our families, friends and colleagues is that we're checking it all regularly. Today's sin is to be, at any time, unavailable, unreachable or non-communicative.
But the pace of time, as God designed it, have to give regularly, every week, some time away from the whirlwind, a "time-gap" in which are placed in parentheses ordinary life, the stresses and strains ordinary, ordinary work and ordinary expectations and allow us to pause, stop, to turn off things and relax. Today, no area is this more appropriate and urgent than the use of phones, address books and computers. All of these elements, more than anything else, are the regular time, slave labor and occupations and concerns that we have to abstain today according to the commandment of sanctifying the Lord's Day.
know one woman who works for his church, along with her husband. Since the two are involved in pastoral ministry, they have to work on Sunday morning and sometimes till the afternoon. So they begin to celebrate the Day-Gap, late in the afternoon of Sunday. Here's how she describes what they do: We began our celebration of the Day-Gap at 4:00 pm on Sunday, they symbolically started disconnecting our computers, turning off our cell phones or phones, and also off every of information appliances that we have. During the twenty-nine hours or do not receive any call. We cyber-fast ", out of all contact out of the whirlwind, not available. At 9:00 pm on Monday, our day-Sabbath just as it started, symbolically, although Conversely, we are breaking our "cyber-fast", we again turn our phones and computers, and began to respond to messages received. Back to our whirlwind for a new week. Sometimes the fact become non-available and thus unreachable irritates our families and friends, but if we have to celebrate the Day-Gap, taking into account our lives-to-pressure, away from all this is the most important we must do. There is no alternative: either that - working seven days a week!
When I was young, both our churches and our culture still taking very seriously the concept of the Sabbath Day "(for Christians especially the idea of \u200b\u200bnot working on Sunday). There was always the popular question: What are you allowed to do on Sunday and what you are not allowed? Usually this question alluded to different types of physical work: Can you look after your garden on a Sunday? Can you pick apples in your apple on Sunday? Today I worry less gardening and apple picking on Sunday. The most important issue today is: Can we leave the wheel of punishment and the routine of telephones and computers to be genuinely available Sunday to celebrate the Lord's Day?
-Day Sabbath, Wayne Muller tells us, it's time to get away from the turmoil, a time in which we withdraw the hand from the plow and let the earth only God and take care of things while we drink, even for brief moments, the source of rest, tranquility and delight. Today plow that resembles the mobile phone, or computer or computer. Centuries ago, the Persian mystic poet Rumi (thirteenth century) wrote: "I've lived too long where I can reach!" Have not we lived through all this?
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