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Eye on the World: Eye on tech
It’s a big month for technology: as the holiday shopping season approaches, tech companies unveil their latest products at trade shows and during special announcements. This week Windows 8, Microsoft’s new operating system, will launch for computers and tablets, and Apple is expected to announce an “iPad mini” tablet with a 7-inch screen, specially geared for students and teachers.
New technology can be exciting, and we can all support innovation that makes people’s lives more convenient—but it’s worth carefully considering how we approach technology, and making sure it’s playing a helpful and productive role in our lives. Prayer can be transformational in this regard.
“24/7 Connectivity: our oneness with God“ discusses the role that technology might play in a prayer-centered life. Increased connectivity can help us to converse with, reach out to, and bless more people. You might say it offers the possibility of an expanded healing mission! A prayer-centered life isn’t incompatible with technology, yet it helps to allow our interaction with technology to be God-guided.
Some people may find that technology is so ubiquitous in their lives that it’s crowding out time for quiet communion with God. You might be interested in “Priority-challenged? Start with prayer,” which discusses how we can allow our daily activities—including social networking and other tech endeavors—to be a natural outgrowth of our relationship with God. The author writes, “As we place communing with God as a priority in our lives, we will realize our ability to perform the tasks and responsibilities we each have more harmoniously and more efficiently.”
As technological innovation continues, we can all embrace and celebrate this progress, while prayerfully considering how these kinds of advances can assist, rather than corrode, our daily recognition of God’s care.