Sometimes the machinery around us tries to be smarter than we are. I have just spent nearly 2 hours outsmarting the contacts list on my yahoo mail. You see, they don't want me to have two of the same names on my list. I list everyone on here with UMRA as the first name so I can find them quickly, then your first name as middle, then the last. So I end up with two UMRA Grace, UMRA Litchfield, UMRA Ruesink, UMRA Taylor, etc. It would not allow me to have these as separate names, but kept trying to merge them. So you may find some of your last names look funny, but it is my way of outsmarting the machine.
My kids laugh at me often because I sometimes imagine the machines around us rising up against us and taking over the world. And no, I will not watch Transformers movies. I think it goes back to 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which the computer, Hal, takes over the space station. As much as people can betray other people, my greatest fear is for machinery to do it. I think because even if the machines can think (Hal), they cannot feel. It is our ability to empathize with others that I think keeps us from treating them meanly. It's that old concept of walking a mile in another's shoes. If you can do that you cannot treat them with disrespect.
Loving God, there are so many around us who are in need of our love and care. We pray that you will always help us to feel what the other feels, and to respond as we would want others to respond to us. Let us treat others with respect, and to always see the face of Christ in the faces of those around us. Help us to remember that all persons, no matter where they live, no matter their beliefs, are still your children, and as such are members of our family. Give us grace to love them as we would want to be loved...
My kids laugh at me often because I sometimes imagine the machines around us rising up against us and taking over the world. And no, I will not watch Transformers movies. I think it goes back to 2001: A Space Odyssey, in which the computer, Hal, takes over the space station. As much as people can betray other people, my greatest fear is for machinery to do it. I think because even if the machines can think (Hal), they cannot feel. It is our ability to empathize with others that I think keeps us from treating them meanly. It's that old concept of walking a mile in another's shoes. If you can do that you cannot treat them with disrespect.
Loving God, there are so many around us who are in need of our love and care. We pray that you will always help us to feel what the other feels, and to respond as we would want others to respond to us. Let us treat others with respect, and to always see the face of Christ in the faces of those around us. Help us to remember that all persons, no matter where they live, no matter their beliefs, are still your children, and as such are members of our family. Give us grace to love them as we would want to be loved...
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