little kids unplugged
Boss 2 (you figure it out) was telling me about this cute preschooler with an ipad. Touching and swiping, face all cute as the preschooler concentrated on the screen.
Turns out here in the US its “Screen-Free Week” or something like that. Of course neither you the reader nor I the writer are participating. But I did hear a thing on the radio where an activist was warning parents about too much screen time for preschoolers.
All this reminded me of a article I read that is worth your consideration. Listen, don’t just blow this off like it doesn’t matter. This is your child’s brain we’re talking about here.
Do some research. Buy some actual books and sit and read to your preschools instead of handing them a tablet or smartphone to babysit them. Don’t take my rant for it, read someone smart and thoughtful. Click here to give this a read.
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May Day
Laborers Unite!!! This was once the cry that was the labor movement. Years ago, in the communist world this was a very big holiday. Communism was billed as a worker’s movement. It wasn’t, but that’s another post, not this one. But I do want to think about labor on this day which, in many places, is still a holiday.
But I want to think about the way many Christians few the Christian life as a set of tasks, a list of jobs… of, as I Tweeted recently, a kind of punching a clock for an unseen boss. This is not a biblical view of the movement that Jesus leads.
I heard from a friend lately who came to realize that he was so busy that he was running in circles of activity… circles. Where do circles get us? Well, these circles of activity are tantamount to what some call a dead end job. They are not going anywhere and there is little meaning in them other than just in their doing.
Meaning.
We are daughters and sons of the King who are called precious by Him. We are adopted into his family and are co-heirs with Christ and given the privilege of being a part of the extending of His Kingdom. This is what Paul meant:
Him we proclaim, warning everyone and teaching everyone with all wisdom, that we may present everyone mature in Christ. For this I toil, struggling with all his energy that he powerfully works within me. (Colossians 1:28-29 ESV)
HIS energy.
HIS fruit.
Because He works in and through us, His joyful children.
What did He tell us to do?
Go and make disciples.
Let us stop filling our hours with circular labor trying to keep dead programs alive on live support. Let us, instead, draw close to Him through abiding in Him who is the true source of energy. Then may our toil be in bringing and reminding others about Him through caring relationships which draw them into the presence of Jesus so that they too may find God’s power and the fruit of His Spirit in us.
On this May Day let us celebrate God’s labor in and through us.
today
noooo, not the TV show. After dinner last night the wise, discerning and Sweet Anna said “Today is over, never to be again”
Whoa.
Look carefully then how you walk, not as unwise but as wise, making the best use of the time, because the days are evil. (Ephesians 5:15-16, ESV)
so, are there things we have said? ways that we have said them? ways we have treated others?
Jesus teaches us…
23 So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, 24 leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. (Matthew 5:23-24, ESV)
I love the word reconciled. I love it because it is based upon what God has done for us… HE has suffered for us so that we may be reconciled to Him… We, as followers of Jesus are called to walk behind Him with care, we will struggle and fail, but we can go to each other and be reconciled to one another … but we have to follow Jesus word…
23 So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, 24 leave your gift there before the altar and go. First be reconciled to your brother, and then come and offer your gift. (Matthew 5:22-24, ESV)
He made it possible, so let’s go and reconcile… today!
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what comes out
If we treat people flippantly, we are showing not just a disrespect for them but the ugly state of our own heart.
“it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person.” – Jesus. (Matthew 15.11 ESV)
Let’s RUN to Scripture!
Soak in the life giving word as God uses it in His work of changing the hearts of we, who He calls precious! (Isa 43.4)
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