Google the expression “know your number” and you’ll find screen after screen of reportedly essential life metrics ranging from prostate-specific antigens (PSA), to cholesterol, the amount of money you will need in savings to retire, and your enneagram — which is a quantification of personality which, depending on whom you believe, was either the brainchild of a 4th century Christian mystic or a 20th century Bolivian spiritualist, give or take 1,600 years, but who’s counting?
Well, it seems everyone is counting. With each passing day some new app, gadget of wearable technology or fill-in-the-blank-o-meter emerges to help us capture, measure, and analyze the big data we generate while simply going about living our lives, all holding out the promise of living life better, longer, and more fruitfully — some of these meters serious and helpful, some of them silly and distractive.
It is written, Why even the hairs of your head are all numbered. (Luke 12:7) Keep reading
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