Welcome back to the porch. Plenty of stuff to ponder so far this week. Evenings are a bit cooler and I do enjoy that. Don’t know why it is on my mind, except I retyped most of the first sentence more than once. It brought to mind how far we have come in the world of digital convenience. Before Bill Gates and the computer the typewriter was something I avoided at all costs. When I wrote something I always used a pencil and had those large erasers on the table or desk a short reach away. Using the computer today it is much easier to clean up a mistake or misspelling quickly and leave no sign that you might have got it wrong to start with. You can highlight, back up and erase with a few key strokes and get this in most cases, the computer will correct your spelling and grammar for you. I got to thinking that might be the reason we have become so reckless as to how we speak to and treat other people. We forget that words, actions and bad behavior is not that easy to correct. There is not enough white-out, erasers, or delete keys to correct something we say, write or do that tends to hurt other people. Information is only a google away, and we experience less think time to search out and discover the facts…Consider this…A farmer prepares the ground for planting, removes the rocks and weeds that will hinder a good crop, he knows his field…his planting ground so to speak. Computers allows us to plant the ground we have never plowed and never considering the quality of the of the seed or ground…we use another mans plow and seed. 

The whole purpose of this little discourse is to remind all of us to think about what we say and how words are a marker of time, character, and faith. We are living in a time where hate, disrespect and common civility are now the norm. What you say and do does matter and there is in real life no delete key. 

Do all the good you can, to all the people you can and stand firm in the faith. 

jk