Tag: change

Sunday Reflection: Lifting Up And Change

It’s nice to be cheered on in the good things you are doing. There are also times when you are down a little to be lifted up to get you back on track. Spirits both past and present are seeing you and hopefully giving you a hand up while you do the things you are doing.

Personally, I believe God loves all and wants everyone to feel the love that can sustain and help us all prosper. As a believer, I find it better to encourage than to do something else.

Even as we do our own activities there comes change. It can make life feel new and exciting but it means leaving some old stuff behind. Change can make us feel uncomfortable but sometimes it is necessary. Burning forests can clear stuff out for new things to come forth.

The fire burns and hopefully we change from it. I know for me it’s a spiritual thing and that is powerful.

Sunday Reflection: Little Things Change The World

The story of my faith features a baby who came into the world to change it as a grownup. So with that being said little things have great power to impact the lives of us all. I can’t help but think that humility, kindness, peace, and grace are little things on their own but together they can make a difference. If everyone did their part we would live in a world that would be so much better than what we live in now. Truly it’s the little things that count the most. I find genuine actions don’t come from grand gestures but from those good deeds done daily where we see the most beautiful. Seek those opportunities to do what you can when you can as much as you can.

Just a reminder that Christmas is a wonderful season, not just one day. The journey is more fun than the destination.

Broadband For All, Not Just Internet

We live in a technologically broadband world where we want things to be delivered to our screens and front door as fast as possible. Going back to anything slower would not be acceptable. Technology has changed our world.

If we are using broadband and change in technology as a metaphor it makes me wonder why politically and culturally so many people want to go back to the dark ages. No one I know is pining for the good old days of dial-up Internet where it took forever to get online and we had to wait so long for things to appear on our screens.

Lately there has been the call of going back to a time where some feel like the world was at its best makes me wonder. Can you imagine people not having access to a broadband world let alone a world of opportunities they were not able to enjoy. Doesn’t it make sense to move forward and to give everyone the broadest opportunities in life where information as well as free and open existence is something they can count on.

Those who seek to narrow the bandwidth of life sound selfish to me. To throttle the speed of change isn’t a very just thing to do. A fast pipe is not too much to ask for people who seem to be told that 56K dial-up is all they should ever hope to get. Let’s just hope some people aren’t going to be taken back to the time before technology revolutionized everything. I hope that no one would have to be relegated to places where they aren’t even let in a library or a school or even places where people are making decisions that impact their lives.