Happy Saturday!  I'm enjoying a few precious moments of relaxation.  I hope you get to relax today as well.

This has been so much on my mind lately.  The most consistent theme of my thoughts is living simply.  My generation has witnessed technology explode.  It has brought many good things.  I do think we are trading some pretty important things to make room for it.  Teenagers walk around connected to everything in the palm of their hand. I feel cautious about it all myself, especially here lately.  Social media is great but we are losing things to it as well.
   The first thing we are losing is independent thought.  I have find myself going along with what the latest band wagon fad is going around.  Let's get all emotional and fired up about -------------.   The blank is ever changing and can cost people "on the wrong side" everything they worked for.  Are we researching, digging, gathering opinions of like minded people, truly listening to the other side?  I haven't always.  I'm trying so hard to teach my children to think for themselves. I am afraid my example is poor.  We live in an age where emotions are reported as news more than facts.  The worst is we don't even realize it.   We assume that everyone feels this way about this or that way about that.  We have become a nation of left/right, black/white.....this /that.  We have forgotten that there are real people on the other side of the slash.  We need to live more simply in the information we choose to take to heart. We need to uncover the simple truth. We live in a fallen world where the enemy isn't each other.