The foundation stone for true love
Ignoring family and friends who are in the room, while text messaging someone far away, is counterproductive to solid, healthy, relationships.
Allowing ourselves to be consumed with on-line chat rooms, or endlessly talking on cell phones, is a form of self-destruction, for it ultimately leads to separation and alienation from profitable relationships with people in our midst.
Communal relationships where we grow spiritually and socially are all important for anyone who desires to have a deeper relationship with God, or such relationships become the foundation stone for learning true love.
It is not really possible to become a loving person if we turn ourselves over to a life immersed in technology.
Students who sit in lecture halls, text messaging their friends, are not participating in the learning process that is the hallmark of the classroom.
People who leave their cell phones in vibrate mode, while attending the divine services, are demonstrating that their friends are more important than the worship of God.
If we are going to mature in the faith we have to take the steps that lead to a deepening of our relationship with God, just as we must do if we are to have successful marriages, or lasting friendships.
The age of technological advancement has it’s advantages, but it also has a dark side.
When we spend the majority of our waking hours text messaging, talking on mobile phones, or becoming lost in cyberspace, we’ve become self-destructive, having succumbed to an addictive behavior that blocks true spiritual, social, and mental growth.
Technology has it’s place, but we must not allow it to become a god unto itself.
Love in Christ,
Abbot Tryphon