Life itself is grace...

It just occurred to me that I am staring at a piece of history that has changed human lives profoundly...

 

 

Yep, that's it -- this innocent looking, silent, non-threatening, and beautiful piece of device has taken over our lives!  It's made it very difficult for our minds to quiet down, to focus, to absorb the present and to think!

The ever-increasing creep of technology -- into our lives, our families, our brains -- has created the state of "continuous partial attention" where we are always partly tuned into everything while never completely tuned in to anything.  Sadly, "Continuous partial attention" seems like a good three-word description of modern life.

 

Listen to your life.  See it for the fathomless mystery that it is.  In the boredom and pain of it, no less than in the excitement and gladness: touch, taste, smell your way to the holy and hidden heart of it, because in the last analysis, all moments are key moments, and life itself is grace.

 

-- Frederick Buechner   

 

The endless cycle of idea and action,
Endless invention, endless experiment,
Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness;
Knowledge of speech, but not of silence;
Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word...

Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

-- T. S. Eliot