Easter Happened - So What?
Rich Wooten
1 Peter 1:3-4
What happens the day or week after a major accomplishment? If you are like me, there is a sense of the 'let down' - the emotions are different, the expectations are different, it is just not the same. Maybe a major sporting event, or birth of a child, even a wedding. The event happens, and we are so excited, elation, joy, then reality sets in - oh yeah, there's another day ahead...and another...and another. We have to be careful how we plan for the day after! What is our 'reason' after the moment? What meaning can we ascribe to an event, and then live with the knowledge of that event happening, affecting us, but moving forward it is different than the moment itself.
I think that it is human nature to want to capture the moment, to contain it, and box it up for future reference, to try to relive it. It's part of who we are. In our world today, we have cameras everywhere, capturing moments of meaning. But there is a negative side effect of this phenomenon. We begin to miss the story, the big story. And if we miss the big story, then the little ways we fit in through our small story just don't seem to make sense.
Findings showed that subjects had trouble remembering the objects they photographed, something Henkel describes as ''photo-taking impairment effect.''
''When people rely on technology to remember for them - counting on the camera to record the event and thus not needing to attend to it fully themselves - it can have a negative impact on how well they remember their experiences,'' she explains. (Huffpost Living)
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/12/10/memory-loss-causes_n_4419560.html
If we take a snapshot with technology, we will likely forget the moment. But if we relish in the moment, take it in, we will remember. Not to say we can't take photos!
We can have a tendency to carry over this idea into a spiritual realm. The ''internet of things'' is so systemic to us, all encompassing, ...
Rich Wooten
1 Peter 1:3-4
What happens the day or week after a major accomplishment? If you are like me, there is a sense of the 'let down' - the emotions are different, the expectations are different, it is just not the same. Maybe a major sporting event, or birth of a child, even a wedding. The event happens, and we are so excited, elation, joy, then reality sets in - oh yeah, there's another day ahead...and another...and another. We have to be careful how we plan for the day after! What is our 'reason' after the moment? What meaning can we ascribe to an event, and then live with the knowledge of that event happening, affecting us, but moving forward it is different than the moment itself.
I think that it is human nature to want to capture the moment, to contain it, and box it up for future reference, to try to relive it. It's part of who we are. In our world today, we have cameras everywhere, capturing moments of meaning. But there is a negative side effect of this phenomenon. We begin to miss the story, the big story. And if we miss the big story, then the little ways we fit in through our small story just don't seem to make sense.
Findings showed that subjects had trouble remembering the objects they photographed, something Henkel describes as ''photo-taking impairment effect.''
''When people rely on technology to remember for them - counting on the camera to record the event and thus not needing to attend to it fully themselves - it can have a negative impact on how well they remember their experiences,'' she explains. (Huffpost Living)
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/12/10/memory-loss-causes_n_4419560.html
If we take a snapshot with technology, we will likely forget the moment. But if we relish in the moment, take it in, we will remember. Not to say we can't take photos!
We can have a tendency to carry over this idea into a spiritual realm. The ''internet of things'' is so systemic to us, all encompassing, ...
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