Wednesday Prayer

[jaybreak]

Apologies for completely missing our weekly prayer time last Wednesday. The combination of my shoulder, getting ready for the surgery, and finishing up work for the year has eaten up a lot of my time and energy. Luckily it will all be over soon. Except for the shoulder...recovery and all that.

I may not be able to text out the call to prayer next Wednesday, depending on when my surgery is (I won't know what time I go in until the day before). But if I am out of the hospital with my wits about me, I'll be able to engage.

Thanks everyone!

[Ed Hurst]

Yeah, life is what happens while you were pursuing other plans. We will hold it together one way or another.

[IainH]

I cannot do this by phone. I use a burner because it's cheap and doesn't waste my time and energy like my smartphone did. I also keep data off because it gobbles minutes. If you text me please don't send files, I do not open them. My apologies for the inconvenience.
PS. Just as there has been a resurgence in interest in vinyl records, I think it would be great if people started writing letters again. I recall the anticipation of watching the mailman deliver and running out to see if my expected letter had arrived. We've lost that.

[Ed Hurst]

I suppose it depends on what you send in a letter whether it really needs to be on paper. If the replacement for dead trees is herds of people staring at electronic devices all day, grinding up a few trees isn't such an awful thing. I like the idea of digitizing documents so I can carry a library in my pocket, but I still keep a printer because there are those times when the only way to get a response from some agency is sending snail mail. There's no way I could do it with a pen on paper; I'm to the point where arthritis and age make my penmanship past a line or two unreadable. But this is what we have to work with, and I find email a lot quicker and more efficient for some communications. Even that is going by the wayside as the mainstream considers is mostly stodgy and out of style.

[jaybreak]

Looks like I missed another Wednesday. In my defense, I was still a little doped up from my surgery.

The power of smartphones are both a blessing and curse. If you're disciplined enough, you can ignore the dopamine distractions and use it for what you need to. Most people, at least in America, haven't developed that kind of behavior, so smartphone "utility" is out of control.

Iain, would you prefer email for Wednesday prayer time, or would that present the same problem? It doesn't have the immediacy of timing that texting provides. Let me know