Testing the technologies of life ........

A friend of mine once turned up at Church for Evening Prayer having spent the afternoon laying Lino.

As the procession left the Vestry his Vicar murmured, 'You have remembered that you're preaching?'

He hadn't.

Reflecting on the experience later, he commented, 'when I heard myself saying Jesus helps you iron our the bumps in the Lino of life', I knew the I should prepare my sermons more carefully.

This week I have been tempted to reflect on the need for regular cleaning of the vacuum cleaner of life, especially when you have three dogs and a lot more outdoor to tread back in than in any previous life.

Then we had to rehearse the necessary steps to install the smart meter of life so that your energy needs can be monitored and reviewed.

There's certainly a bump in the energy costs of life every time you put the Kettle on!

Then of course there is the drop in the interconnectivity of life every time the broadband speed drops and you're are told that your connection has been lost.

The BT Engineer advised that as we are at the end of the line from the Exchange it's surprising that we have a signal at all, so sometimes and erratically, is the best we can hope for it seems.

Then there is the Post Office and the Postman.

We thought that we had a 'safe place of life'.

Certainly Amazon know we have because things are left in the safe place.

I phoned the Post Office to arrange a safe place, after 3/4's of an hour waiting for a reply, I took their advice and downloaded the Post Office App.

I completed the online form, registered, looked for 'safeplace' only to be advised that I should call the number they had been 'too busy to answer!

So with almost every mail delivery we have a tantalising card saying 'Something for you' only to be advised that we have to drive 5 miles on the next working day to collect in person with proof of identity.

Beam me up Scotty!

So as Lent gets closer I began to prepare the Lent course. Having had a hugely successful Friday Film show, aka entertaining evangelism, we decided to discuss Faith, Hope and Redemption in the Greatest Showman as our Lent Course in 2019.

But in the interactive, connected Vicarage of futurepast we don't have a DVD player, so I decided to risk the bumps in the interactivity of life, the bumps in the connectivity of life and create my own safe place of life.

I purchased, downloaded and can now, hopefully project the film from YouTube, via my iPad, and then via my Apple TV onto the big screen?

If the magic works, all will be well, or as Mother Julien has it, All Manner of things will be well, including the Lent Course.

If not there may well be a further serious testing of faith and hope in the technologies of life.




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