Over the Christmas holiday we watched a few episodes of The Bloomberg Game Changers. (Yes, we’re nerds.) Anyway, pretty good biographies about business folks who have impacted the flow of business, social culture, and economics in recent history. The stories of Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft were featured, of course. I was impressed with the story of Jon Stewart. Interesting guy. After creating a season pass on Tivo, we learned not many episodes were made and we were in repeat-land. Bummer.
I bring this up to give you a brief history of the influence of the thoughts that will follow. You see, my brain is as the book title says “spaghetti” and everything connects. Sometimes it helps you to understand which noodle touched which to ignite the subsequent thought process. So let us proceed…
While visiting with a friend in her newly-finished family room she shared the decor ideas she had for a few of the elements in the room. While driving to a ball game later in the day, I recalled the conversation and made a mental note to visit “creative ideas for thus-and-so dot com” to see if there were images that would spark ideas for her.
We think like that now, don’t we? Hmmm, I wonder what that word means. Oh, let me look it up online. More specifically, we have made an action word out of the Google empire. What we actually say is, Let me google that definition. It’s the modern version of Give me a kleenex (instead of tissue).
It was a long way to the game and the children were reading in the van, so I found myself with time to follow through several thoughts (don’t you love when that happens?). The next interesting concept that popped up was my son’s pubescent trek toward adulthood. I sat pondering What am I going to do with that boy? Not being far from the “google” thought and living in the culture that we do, the natural progression was to make another mental note to visit “what to do with a tweenage boy who is excessively bright and emotionally wonky dot com.”
Have you ever tried to find that site? Have you found it? You may have found a few close to it. Perhaps you’ve stumbled across “I can’t help you unless you buy my e-book about emotionally wonky tweens and after I get your $19.95, I’d be happy to help you dot com.” But you’ve never actually found the info you wanted. And I know why.
You used Google.
Or Bing.
Maybe Ask.
Or Yahoo!
What you (and for those moments in the car, what I) have erred in doing is putting valid data sets into the wrong search engine. There is no website detectable by any of the existing cyber-search engines that can help with most of our oh-help-me queries.
No, the search engine we are truly looking for was mentioned by Maria. Remember when Maria was jovially singing “I Have Confidence” on the way from the convent to the von Trapp’s home? And as she approached the house the song went through an extreme retardando as she sang, “I have confidence in confidence alone…” She stopped at the iron gate as her eyes inhaled the massive family estate. She sighed and said, “Lord, help.”
BAM!! Right there…there’s the search engine that all the information in the information age is causing us to overlook: the Holy Spirit.
Most of our online searches bring us to the iron gate and we sigh, Oh well, get up from the PC, and go along our day wishing we could handle our problems with more confidence (and peace).
Maria’s approach (Lord, help) is the most effective way of data set entry to gain immediate strength and clarity for the situation and boldly push through the iron gate of whatever we are facing.
I’m ashamed that my thoughts in the car revealed more of a trust in man (and his creation) than in my Creator. In the Holy Spirit he has given us the ultimate search engine, don’tcha think?
I’d better get off this blog and go seek Him for help for me and leave my tween in his capable hands.
Over the Christmas holiday we watched a
few episodes of The Bloomberg Game
Changers. (yes, we’re nerds.) Anyway,
pretty good biographies about business
folks who have impacted the flow of
business, social culture, and economics in
recent history. The stories of Google,
Facebook, Apple, Microsoft were featured,
of course. I was impressed with the story
of Jon Stuart. Interesting guy with an
interesting story. After creating a season
pass on Tivo, we learned not many episodes
were made and we were in repeat-land. Oh
well.
I bring this up to give you a brief
history of the influence of the thoughts
that will follow. You see, my brain is as
the book title says “spaghetti” and
everything connects. Sometimes it helps
you to understand which noodle touched
which to ignite the subsequent thought
process.
So let us continue…
While visiting with a friend in her newly
-finished family room she shared the decor
ideas she had for a few of the walls and
elments in the room. While driving to a
ball game later in the day, I recalled the
conversation and made a mental note to
visit “creative ideas for thus-and-so dot
com” to see if there were images that
would spark ideas for her.
We think like that now, don’t we? Hmmm, I
wonder what that word means. Oh, let me
look it up online. More specifically, we
have made an action word out of the Google
empire. What we actually say is, “Let me
google that definition.” It’s the modern
day version of Give me a kleenex (instead
of tissue).
It was a long way to the game and the
children were reading in the van, so I
found myself with time to have several
thoughts. The next interesting concept
that popped up was my son’s pubescent trek
toward adulthood. I sat pondering What am
I going to do with that boy? Not being far
from the “google” thought and livig in the
culture that we do, the natural
progression was to make another mental
note to visit “what to do with a tweenage
boy who is excessively bright and
emotionally wonky dot com.”
Have you ever tried to find that site?
Have you found it? You may have found a
few close to it. Perhaps you’ve stumbled
across the “I can’t help you unless you
buy my e-book about emotionally wonky
tweens and after I get your $19.95, I’d be
happy to help you dot com” site. But
you’ve never actually found the site.
And I know why.
You used Google.
Or Bing.
Or some other search engine.
What you (and for a split second in the
car, what I) have erred in doing is
putting valid data sets into the wrong
search engine.
There is no website detectable by any of
the existing cyber-search engines that can
help with most of our oh-help-me queries.
No, the search engine we are truly looking
for was mentioned by Maria. Remember when
Maria was jovially singing “I Have
Confidence” on the way from the convent to
the von Trapp’s home? And as she
approached the house the song went through
an extreme retardando as she sang, “I have
confidence in confidence alone…” She
stopped at the iron gate and inhaled the
massive family estate. She sighed and
said, “Lord, help.”
Bam! Right there…there’s the search
engine that all the information in the
information age is causing us to overlook:
the Holy Spirit. My Bible tells me he’s a
helper in time of need.
Most of our online searches bring us to
the iron gate and we sigh and say, “Oh
well,” get up from the PC and go along our
day wishing we could handle our problems
with more power and confidence (and
peace).
Maria’s way (“Lord, help”) is the way to
enter the data set, press Enter, gain
immediate strength and clarity for the
situation and boldly push through the iron
gate of whatever is facing us.
I’m ashamed that my thoughts in the car
revealed more of a trust in man (and his
creation) than in my Creator. In the Holy
Spirit he has given us the ultimate search
engine, don’tcha think?
I’d better get off this blog and go seek
Him for help for me and leave my tween in
his capable hands. Over the Christmas holiday we watched a few episodes of The Bloomberg Game Changers. (yes, we’re nerds.) Anyway, pretty good biographies about business folks who have impacted the flow of business, social culture, and economics in recent history. The stories of Google, Facebook, Apple, Microsoft were featured, of course. I was impressed with the story of Jon Stuart. Interesting guy with an interesting story. After creating a season pass on Tivo, we learned not many episodes were made and we were in repeat-land. Oh well.
I bring this up to give you a brief history of the influence of the thoughts that will follow. You see, my brain is as the book title says “spaghetti” and everything connects. Sometimes it helps you to understand which noodle touched which to ignite the subsequent thought process.
So let us continue…
While visiting with a friend in her newly-finished family room she shared the decor ideas she had for a few of the walls and elments in the room. While driving to a ball game later in the day, I recalled the conversation and made a mental note to visit “creative ideas for thus-and-so dot com” to see if there were images that would spark ideas for her.
We think like that now, don’t we? Hmmm, I wonder what that word means. Oh, let me look it up online. More specifically, we have made an action word out of the Google empire. What we actually say is, “Let me google that definition.” It’s the modern day version of Give me a kleenex (instead of tissue).
It was a long way to the game and the children were reading in the van, so I found myself with time to have several thoughts. The next interesting concept that popped up was my son’s pubescent trek toward adulthood. I sat pondering What am I going to do with that boy? Not being far from the “google” thought and livig in the culture that we do, the natural progression was to make another mental note to visit “what to do with a tweenage boy who is excessively bright and emotionally wonky dot com.”
Have you ever tried to find that site? Have you found it? You may have found a few close to it. Perhaps you’ve stumbled across the “I can’t help you unless you buy my e-book about emotionally wonky tweens and after I get your $19.95, I’d be happy to help you dot com” site. But you’ve never actually found the site.
And I know why.
You used Google.
Or Bing.
Or some other search engine.
What you (and for a split second in the car, what I) have erred in doing is putting valid data sets into the wrong search engine.
There is no website detectable by any of the existing cyber-search engines that can help with most of our oh-help-me queries.
No, the search engine we are truly looking for was mentioned by Maria. Remember when Maria was jovially singing “I Have Confidence” on the way from the convent to the von Trapp’s home? And as she approached the house the song went through an extreme retardando as she sang, “I have confidence in confidence alone…” She stopped at the iron gate and inhaled the massive family estate. She sighed and said, “Lord, help.”
Bam! Right there…there’s the search engine that all the information in the information age is causing us to overlook: the Holy Spirit. My Bible tells me he’s a helper in time of need.
Most of our online searches bring us to the iron gate and we sigh and say, “Oh well,” get up from the PC and go along our day wishing we could handle our problems with more power and confidence (and peace).
Maria’s way (“Lord, help”) is the way to enter the data set, press Enter, gain immediate strength and clarity for the situation and boldly push through the iron gate of whatever is facing us.
I’m ashamed that my thoughts in the car revealed more of a trust in man (and his creation) than in my Creator. In the Holy Spirit he has given us the ultimate search engine, don’tcha think?
I’d better get off this blog and go seek Him for help for me and leave my tween in his capable hands.
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