A real need for connection

- There is this little blinking light on my blackberry, and I love it! It blinks to tell me there is a message for me, a text message or an email, even facebook and twitter make my blackberry blink. I am constantly checking my phone, I go out of my way to pull it out of my purse or walk across a room in the middle of a conversation to make sure I haven't missed anything! This is sad partly because I allow my blackberry to interrupt my day and partly because I look forward to the interruption. I drive my friends nuts, they threaten to take my phone when we hang out because I will pull my blackberry out every couple of minutes. Seriously I can turn the sound off and put it out of my sight and a few times I have still been soo "connected" that I happened to check it at the moment I was receiving a phone call. More than likely that was a coincidence but for a second I thought I was pretty connected to my blackberry!

So I had this thought today that if I was as connected to God as I am my blackberry I could see and know where He is working and what He is doing around me. Even if I reached for God as much as I reach for my phone, my life personally would have so much more power and peace. I am not about to suggest that I give up my phone entirely, but I would imagine that connecting more with Jesus would decrease my interest in whatever my blinking blackberry has waiting for me!