What a smart phone can teach of God

I got my christmas gift early and it has resulted in bouts of delight accompanied by bouts of frothing at the mouth. This is how most things in life are for me. I believe it is an immutable law of nature- for every force there is an equal but opposite force, which is why I was created to counterbalance all the calm and gentle people on earth.

But back to my gift- since I was due for a phone upgrade, Arvo got me a smart phone. These wonders of the modern age do everything. If I get lost, I hit a navigation button and in a soothing voice, the phone asks me where I want to go and assures me it will get me there. If I want to send an email from the Sahara desert, it can do that too. If I want to shoot videos or photos, or read a book on its little screen or text a message with either a touch screen or a real slide out keyboard pad, it can do all that! It alerts me to incoming emails or text messages with my choice of a hundred ring tones, including a deep Satanic voice that growls out, "droid!"

There are many features and buttons I have yet to understand. I don't dare press the one that shows an icon of a nuclear weapon. The only thing that it is difficult to do with this phone is actually make a phone call but I am getting the hang of that. And the one disappointment is that the touch screen is slow and draggy compared with my ipod screen thus making drawing on the phone difficult. I tried a few sketches but was frustrated by the limitations of the unresposive touch screen.

Still, determined to give the Droid a true trial,I have been drawing and blogging the past few days only from my phone.
Asherel lay nearby on the couch, still recoveriing from our holiday tradition of getting sick on xmas. I pulled out my Droid and began sketching. My first instinct of frustration was to fling the phone in the fire, but then I discovered that if I drew very, very slowly, the screen was more responsive. This is the antithesis of me- to proceed slowly and thoughtfully, but as I did so, my heart rate slowed and my drawing looked more planned, more deliberate.

My favorite Bible verse is Psalm 46:10 - "Be still, and know that I am God." I need that continual reminder to slow down, to notice all the wonder around me, to soak in the joy of the journey and not fret so much over where I hope to ultimately go. It is a hard lesson for me, one I am forever forgetting. Funny how the smart phone is even able to impart that spiritual message.

Exodus 14:14 NIV

The Lord will fight for you; you need only to be still."

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