It’s quite funny that a regular landline phone can be classified a new toy but we are having such fun with it.
Our landline phones were on the way out. No number of new batteries got them going. For quite some time we have only be using one. The phone rings and if it’s not on the hook, we run around trying to find it. Sometimes Mike has it in his office and that means a quick sprint from our bedroom down the stairs, across the lounge, down the passage to the study. We decided it was time for a new phone, so we went and got this:
Looks like an o-l-d cell phone, but it has some nifty features. There are three handsets. One at my desk, one in Mike’s office and one in the kitchen. I can now be sitting at my desk and call Mike (internally) to ask him if he wants tea, or tell him that I’m going to be going out or whatever. That’s the feature we are going to be using the most. Another thing which is really great is that if a call comes in for him, I can put the call through to him without leaving my chair! No more running around to find him and taking the phone to him. I still need to learn how to do this though. It has caller id and a stack of storage for phone numbers, so, like my cell phone, it’s easy to find and dial someone.
It’s going to be very useful.
Phones have changed our lives. I remember back in 1997 having my first cell phone and feeling so amazed that I could be walking through a forest in George and taking calls from someone at CCFm. It suddenly made connectivity so much easier. Now they have come such a long way that they are our means of instant information. When Mike and I went to see a movie, I stood in front of the display and Googled the movie to see if we would enjoy it – and to see what it got on Rotten Tomatoes – to see how others had rated it. When the critics and the viewers all rated it 80%, we decided it would be pretty good. And it was (that’s tomorrow’s blog!) That’s the spectacular use for a cell phone – instant connectivity to endless amounts of information. The world instantly at your fingertips.
Cell phones can give you information and allow you to communicate with whoever you need to communicate – except God.
You don’t need a phone to contact Him.
Just address Him and you are heard. In fact before you even speak the words, He knows what is on your mind and what is on your heart. He knows what lies before you and what you have gone through. There is nothing He does not know. No phones needed. Instant connectivity. No bad line. No interference. No dead battery. He hears your every word. He’s available 24/7.
Jeremiah 33:3
“Call to me and I will answer you and tell you great and unsearchable things you do not know.’
For all time.
These are the days!
Keep the smile going.
God bless you!
In His Grip,
Helga xx 🙂