Connections or Not
I once read an article by Harriet Beecher Stowe about her life and her childern. Even after she had become a well known author she faced trauma in her life. The story touched my heart because it was about how she had written her husband in the summer of 1849 about the sickness in the city and their child who was well it seemed but then did not survive the cholera that swept through the area of Ohio. She was cut off from communication with her husband Calvin--- because that is just the way it was then. From Ohio to Boston was much to far.
There was no mail of any rapid delivery, no phone, no internet, no instant message...there was only news. Stories really of the past happenings...not really current information.
A few years ago when I was in India I was able to IM -Instant message- our daughter who was in TX. It was really amazing and since there is about a 12 hour distance we could plan our chats. Now that's communication.
But communication really not so much about how one gets together with another but what is shared in those times. How real do we get. Communication is about being present to the other person and in that offering yourself as a present to that other one.
My computer internet has been 'floofy' --my own term for not working --- and I felt cut off from what has become a normal way to contact other folks. Imagine if it were days or months ...not hours or minutes that separated us from one another?
But here is a connection that knows know bounds... prayer. We aren't cut off or intercepted or traced or spied-on or anything but linked to one another and even more important to God.
God's ready we don't need a pass-word... sometimes even a sigh is enough.... to paraphrase Romans 8:26
The Spirit of God helps us with our present limitations. Even if we don't know how to use the right words to pray as children of God, the Spirit within us is actually praying for us in those 'agonized longings' which never find words. And God who knows the heart's secrets understand, of course, the Spirit's intention as the Spirit prays for those who love God. (paraphrase Phillips translation)
Deep sigh
Keep in touch...
God abides
Bobbie McGarey
@2004
There was no mail of any rapid delivery, no phone, no internet, no instant message...there was only news. Stories really of the past happenings...not really current information.
A few years ago when I was in India I was able to IM -Instant message- our daughter who was in TX. It was really amazing and since there is about a 12 hour distance we could plan our chats. Now that's communication.
But communication really not so much about how one gets together with another but what is shared in those times. How real do we get. Communication is about being present to the other person and in that offering yourself as a present to that other one.
My computer internet has been 'floofy' --my own term for not working --- and I felt cut off from what has become a normal way to contact other folks. Imagine if it were days or months ...not hours or minutes that separated us from one another?
But here is a connection that knows know bounds... prayer. We aren't cut off or intercepted or traced or spied-on or anything but linked to one another and even more important to God.
God's ready we don't need a pass-word... sometimes even a sigh is enough.... to paraphrase Romans 8:26
The Spirit of God helps us with our present limitations. Even if we don't know how to use the right words to pray as children of God, the Spirit within us is actually praying for us in those 'agonized longings' which never find words. And God who knows the heart's secrets understand, of course, the Spirit's intention as the Spirit prays for those who love God. (paraphrase Phillips translation)
Deep sigh
Keep in touch...
God abides
Bobbie McGarey
@2004
posted by Bobbie Giltz McGarey at
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