Yes! That’s what I once said.
The year was about 1995/96 and cell phones were about to make their big arrival in South Africa, so much so that you could find toy ones. My older brother, Arnold could not wait. He said he was going to get a cell phone as soon as they arrived. I could not believe it. How bizarre that someone would concoct an idea of having a portable phone that you could carry with you all over the place and make yourself contactable wherever you were. Why?
Adamantly, I proclaimed, “I’ll never get a cell phone.”
That was my take on the issue.
How wrong could I have been?!
How small minded and completely unbelieving!
In 1997, I got my first cell phone.
It was so fantastic for work. I clearly remember going to George and going on a hike through a forest. Far away from home and work, my phone started ringing! My office wanted some information and so they phoned my cell number. That same number I have today!
I also remember feeling very self-conscious having a cell phone. We did an outside broadcast and I had the phone to connect with the studio when needed. I felt it was very ostentatious and tried to keep it concealed. I didn’t want to appear arrogant!
Ha ha!
Now regardless of rank or status, almost everyone has a cell phone.
And I have updated and upgraded many times since. No longer are they just a means of making a telephone call. My cell phone of today is a mini computer that keeps me connected at all levels of communication.
Who knew?
If I knew then what I know now, I would have invested in Samsung or Sony.
What’s quite interesting is the parallel of other stuff that we don’t know about.
Many years ago it was estimated that about 840 million people across the world regarded themselves as secular, non-religious, agnostics or atheists.
Maybe, like me and my non belief in cell phone technology, they have no belief in one true God.
I was so hopelessly wrong.
I am so glad I’m not wrong about what I believe in regard to God.
1 Corinthians 8:6
…”for us there is but one God, the Father, from whom all things came and for whom we live; and there is but one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom all things came and through whom we live.”
That’s what I believe.
I hope you do too.
Keep the smile going.
God bless you!
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂