Anytime, Anywhere
Posted by Russ Ray on June 20, 2008
I don’t know if society has even been so concerned about staying “connected” as we are now. My wife used to work in the closing department of a local home builder, and she had to carry a Blackberry and a Nextel with her after hours in case somebody’s closing fell apart at the table and the title company or the customer needed to contact her. Between 5 PM and 8 PM every night, I would hear that thing go off and swear someday that I would pitch it out the window.
Well, now that I’m an adjunct and most students contact me through e-mail, I am the one now who is constantly obsessed with whether or not there are any wi-fi hotspots wherever we go so that I can stay connected with students. For the most part, none of you ever email me anyway, so you either don’t have questions or clearly don’t need to talk to me as much as I seem to need to talk to you. It’s fortunate when I take the family to Panera Bread for dinner that I have access, because after I take 5 minutes to check my e-mail and find out there are no new messages, I spend about 30 minutes on Yahoo! Games.
Whether or not you need to stay connected to your cell phone or your e-mail, we can never forget that we have an eternal connection with God, which is Christ Jesus. You don’t have to check for the location of a hotspot ahead of time to contact Him. You don’t have to check how many bars you have, worry about the signal strength, or check how close you are to a cell tower to reach Him. You don’t have to worry how many minutes you have remaining or how much battery life you have left to keep the connection going. He is there for you 24/7, without a break, on nights, weekends, and Federal holidays. That’s a better connection than you can get with any help desk, cell phone, or laptop on Earth.
