Communication

I hope it's His eyes you're seeing through

After she earned her first smartphone and because she is a gifted artist and linguist, my daughter added Cyrillic and Mandarin characters to some of her friends names within her phone’s list of contacts.

When I would use her phone I wasn’t able to reach the people I needed without her helping me find them.

After earning his first smartphone and because he is a gifted learner and athlete, my oldest son researched which digital keyboard was the fastest and updated his phone’s operating system accordingly. Say hello to the Colemak:

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When I used his phone - since I generally try to avoid even having a smartphone due to the unhealthy addictive behavior (source, source) that has intentionally been built into each operating system, app, and website - I had to find each letter of each word in it’s new location. This was so frustrating and tedious my wife to told our son to change it back to the original keyboard. :)

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A few weeks ago my third-oldest brother told my second-oldest brother:

“Mom’s not here. She’s running an errand and will be back later.”

To which the reponse came: “Are you here?”

To say nothing of online meetings laced with latency:

So when God is communicating with us - through scriptures, friends, family, music, nature, or any other source via horizontal revelation - let’s try and use the characters, language, words, phrases and keyboard He uses instead of resenting Him for not speaking our individual, nuanced language which we each speak and hear through-a-glass-darkly.

If we can elevate our perspective, instead of singing in despair:

If God has a masterplan

that only He understands

I hope it’s your eyes He’s seeing through

(Precious, Depeche Mode - great song, by the way)

We can sing:

Since God has a masterplan

that He helps us understand

I hope it’s His eyes we’re seeing through.