Several months ago I finally made the plunge to smart-phone world. I remember the day that I walked out of the AT&T store with my iPhone, I was overwhelmed with thankfulness, and I asked the Lord to somehow use my iPhone for His glory. Kind of a weird thing, in hindsight, but I had such a sense in that moment that everything I have really is from Him and for Him, and I didn't want even a trendy possession of mine to be in vain.
Inevitably, I'm now one of those girls who can't go anywhere without taking a picture of what I'm doing and post it with an artsy filter to make it look 10x cooler than it actually is. But the other day I thought about that short prayer I said when walking out of the AT&T store, and I realized how faithful God has been in it. Among other things, the iPhone has allowed me to engage in God-glorifying, soul-strengthening, iron-sharpening community with my best friends despite the fact that each of us lives in a different state.
Thomas, Pete, MK, and I are in communication virtually (no pun intended) all day on a group text message. At any given moment my phone could look like this:
From New Jersey to Pennsylvania to Mississippi to Florida I get to engage joy and encouragement and Godly advice and love (and self-photos and clips of ourselves sleep talking (the offender will go unnamed)) with these people every day. Last week I had to close out of our group message because I was laughing out loud so hard in the company lunch room reading the messages back and forth.
So thankful. #soproud. Long live CR South Class of 2007's "Most Inseparable Friends"
Love y'all! (Also, I think we can all agree that we have aged like fine wine--gotten better with age. Sorry, in advance, for what I am about to unearth below...)
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"Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God." (1 John 4:7)
(P.S. This blog post brought to you by my iPhone Blogger app, naturally)
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