Comments on: Driven to Distraction

By: Will Tucker

Will Tucker — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:53:07 +0000

Your last line (Be where you are) is the single most important parenting advice I’ve ever heard. Fortunately I heard it when my two kids were quite young. Simply put it means to put all the distractions aside when you are with your kids. Focus on them while you are with them. Make them know that they are the most important thing in your life. You will never regret those times.

By: Jill

Jill — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:24:14 +0000

If you’ve never experienced a silent retreat, I highly recommend one! Unplug, slow down and let God!

By: Carol Lawson

Carol Lawson — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 21:25:45 +0000

All Christians should ask themselves (me included) what is happening to us today? If we have no time to read God’s Word, be silent before Him, talk to Him, praise and worship Him, listen to Him and wait upon Him as well as feel Him moving in our beings and guiding us daily so that we can carry out His wishes and be intimately acquainted with Him – why do we have times for all these “plug ins”? Why are we not plugged into God with every bit of fervant love we can muster? If we do, we will love God as the first commandment instructs and obey the second commandment. Let us seriously ask ourselves: Do we love God at all? I pray we will never hear Him say: Depart from Me I never knew you. For that verse means to me that we never knew Him!

Carol Lawson

By: Will

Will — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 20:25:31 +0000

I read a Peggy Noonan op-ed about this issue. Information overload is what she called it. Broad and shallow processing impedes knowledge. The pull away from it is that being connected to other people electronically is highly addictive because of the good things that actually do come through them every so often, a heartfelt email, a compliment on a post etc. What happens, though, is silence and reflection are neglected, which runs a person dry.

I can see why the early monastics retreated to the desert to pare away those things.