Remember that tacky (slap-stick?) Christmas song--"Grandma just got run over by a reindeer?' Well, she got run over again with the latest commercial touting electronic entertainment. Seems that the kids don't want to go to grandma's and Dad explains that he knows her house is not alot of fun because she does not have all the FIOS entertainment. Then, presto! they import all the FIOS stuff and now the kids want to stay with their "cool grandma." Yup, once again, Grandma just got run over because who she is as their one and only Grandma got devalued by FIOS entertainment. Now, I am enough of a Dad with 3 kids to know that their focus of interest is often preoccupied elsewhere--but how utterly sad--that technology would get out of perspective and place. Culture critic does not mean getting rid of FIOS--just keeping it in its proper relationship to relationships.
Jesus cut to the chase. Order your life with two commandments. Love God and love your neighbor as yourself. Everything else is secondary to life as an instrument of love -- and never, ever as a plug in for the world of technology.
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