Supplies

I finally have ink for my printer. Black ink and color ink. For the last several months (and I don't think I'm exaggerating if I estimate 6 months) I have been low on ink. Black was the first to go. My papers became colorful because all I had left was the color ink. It was fun to print in red and blue and green. But last week, even the pink ink faded into nothing.

Sigh.

And now that my husband needs to print something - we have ink. (go ahead, laugh.) No surprise, the ink shortage caused me to think...about ink, in a sink with the pink drink. (sorry.)

Years ago, ink cartridges were not a necessity. Computers were massive structures in clean rooms and a heavy hum. If you had said the word "internet", people would assume you were talking about hairspray. But now my life is complicated by the very things that are supposed to make life easier. If I can't 'get on-line', I can't work. When my cell phone battery dies, I'm virtually stranded. Texting, scanners, printers, ATMs, touch-screen phones, credit cards, HDTV...and on, and on...

Modern technology has created an entirely new list of "necessary supplies". In that scramble to have the latest and greatest, are we leaving out the original GREATEST? Do you have the daily bible verse application for your iphone (I'm not even sure there is one, but with so many useless apps, why wouldn't there be one that could actually be of great importance)?

So what am I getting at here? Life is complicated. It always has been, but it seems more so now. With instant messaging from friends, we are missing the instant messages from God. My email delivers wonderful jokes and communications, but it's the on-my-knees-mail that really makes my day.

And so I'm signing off for the day. I realize what a contradiction I am right now - typing on the computer, on the internet, posting to my blog about the distractions of the modern age. Good-bye and God Bless for now! I'm going to light a few candles, grab my bible and get back to just the essentials!