Last night I was about to go out to Kroger and I realised that my sandals had gone missing. I went into the living room and asked my dad if he had seen them. He didn’t reply so I assumed that his answer was no. After turning the house inside out I walked back into the living room and saw that a stack of books that my dad was reading on the floor had a very uneven base. So I moved the stack and found my flip flops sitting there. I turned to my dad and asked if he knew that these had been here. he said yes. so i asked him why he didnt tell me where they were when i asked him.”I wasn’t listening,” he replied. Needless to say, I was mad. I had spent about twenty minutes looking for those shoes and i had to be at kroger before they closed.
That’s when it hit me. How often do we as teens disregard or just tune out whatever our parents say? Even worse, why do we get mad at them when they dont listen to us?
Worse still, how many of us “tune out” what God is trying to say to us?
This whole “tuned-out” personality of teens has reached a level that just makes it ridiculous.
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July 20th, 2008 at 9:25 pm
great first post Louis. We are soooo caught up in what we are doing that we forget to look for what God is doing!!! Ipods, mp3, cell phones, Wii, rockband, guitar hero, and on and on and on. All of these things are neat, but the devil often uses them to distract us from prayer and listening to God. Imagine if we all turned off our electronic devices for just 1 full day… Hmm, I see a new earth day in the making. How about a God day??
July 21st, 2008 at 7:50 pm
Thanks for your thoughts Bob. But satan could also try to distract you in other ways besides technology.
For example, a group of friends wants to take you to a movie on Sunday, we’ll say it’s Narnia. But the time that the chose is the only time that you have to go to mass. It’s also the only ime that they will be able to take you for a while. what do you do? Now, I’m not trying to say that your friends are the spawn of satan or anyhting like that, im just saying that your prayer time/obligations may be challenged by other things that may be lots of fun.
July 21st, 2008 at 8:38 pm
good post. neat to see what you’re thinking.
July 21st, 2008 at 9:21 pm
I love the new blog! awesome first post Louis!