The River Church Community

I am sort of a Luddite.   I don’t really trust new technology.  I generally prefer a book to a screen—could easily live without the Internet in my home.  I am that guy who hung onto beeper technology rather than getting a cell phone.  And I am aware that this is sort of risky in a technological valley.  Of recent though, I have found one piece of technology most helpful.   

 Over Christmas my cousin gave me an old school IPOD.  It’s so old that the “menu” button hardly works and I need to smash it 15-20 times to turn the page.  Other than this completely frustrating button, it works great.  Honestly, when he first handed it to me, I had no idea what to do with it.  I don’t really need music in my ears when I ride my bike or drive in the car.

 But as I started to consider the possibilities, I recalled, with a measure of embarrassment that I have been sort of bored with reading the bible.  Yeah, I said it.  I know.  But its not that I don’t enjoy the bible. Its just that I don’t want to read it.  And now I have another alternative.  I listen to the bible on my IPOD.  It is odd to me that listening is so different—its like my brain sorts the material differently and I notice all kinds of new nuances in the texts.  And because it feels fresh, I have been going through the scriptures like a mad man.  It has been so life giving.   So, I am converted, I guess.  The IPOD had changed my life.  Well sort of.  Mostly, it has just made my bike route to and from work more enjoyable—and relieved the guilt of bible-less days.