I’m done. I’m done paying too much to telecommunication companies that offer poor service.
No home Internet. No cell phone. I am going to stick it to the man!
Why? How can I live like this? Well, I do not expect it to be easy, but let me tell you, there will be benefits for all that I give up. Who knows, I might even learn a thing or two.
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This past Thanksgiving, I disconnected totally from the world. One week at a Trappist Monastery. Honestly, I’ve not had that much space to think since childhood. Perhaps I’m the last of a generation that will ever have experienced life not connected.
In middle school, cellphones among kids was not a given, but by high-school it was. My first experience on a computer was Windows 98 and I was not allowed on the internet because it blocked the phone. My first Internet experience was on kids AOL and honestly computers and games were not the crazy cool experience some are today. It was more fun to go outside. Play in the woods. Ride bikes. Throw rocks at friends. Catch lizards.
You know, since college really, most everyone all the time expects a reply on text message, social media, email. Homework is to be turned in online. Quizzes in class are taken by connecting your phone to app. We are all expected to be connected all the time.
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Not for me. Not any more.
I, with grace from God, will choose what is real. God, lead me not into temptation, but deliver me from evil and may your goodness be brought forth from the evil.
In Jesus’ name we pray,
Amen.
The Lamp Stand 