It is a great irony that the technological revolution has made us poorer. These new-fangled computer-things were supposed to make us so efficient that we could complete all of our work in half the time, granting us twice as much time in recreation.
As we all know, the opposite is true. We’re more efficient, but our expectations on output have increased even more. We’re now earning more money, and many of our consumer items are significantly cheaper than the ‘old days’. Yet, housing prices continue to spiral upwards as our population growth causes increased demand for the limited land in our capital cities.
The upshot is that we’ve now got less time than ever before. And because of our spending ‘choices’, we feel we’ve got less money than ever before. We’re so rich that we feel poor.
Sadly, one of the victims of this revolution is the enjoyment and beauty of slowness. In our constantly-connected world, we seem to always feel busy. Even those brief pauses of time are filled with reading our Twitter feeds on our smartphones. We can’t sit on the train without answering emails or listening to a podcast. We just can’t seem to slow down and go offline.
And so the idea of going away for a church weekend to have an action-packed time of teaching and fellowship seems far-less appealing than ever before. The last thing we often want is to have our weekend full of tightly-programmed activities, as beneficial as we know they will be to us. Maybe we need to re-think our church weekends away?
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