Jiggy for Instant Gratification

America has become an "instant gratification" country.
Push a button and there you have it. . . a completely cooked meal in the microwave after only 10 minutes.

Drive through and get a meal for five bucks at almost any drive through restaurant. No sweat, no cooking, no thought. . .  to how much cholesterol we feed our bodies for only five bucks.  And for the average American, five bucks isn't really a big deal to waste at a drive through.

Click on a website, get an education.
Go to another and read a million blogs.
Click to skype and visit friends across the world. . . and see them on your screen.

When it takes the computer a little bit longer to re-boot, we often get "jiggy" about it, bent out of shape even, like spoiled rotten, two-year old children.

Remember the tornadoes that stormed through Joplin, Missouri a few months ago?  The destruction was sad and so devastating to all those who were involved.  There are no words for what those who lost everything and those who lost loved ones have gone through.  Their lives will never be the same.

I brought that up because right after those storms . . . stormed across the midwest, we received several severe thunderstorms with high winds and lightening.  Nothing around us was damaged and I am so thankful to God for that.  However, since that set of storms have come through, our cell phone service will not allow us to talk inside our home!!!!

We cannot get a clear signal for an extended amount of time. 

After becoming overly crabby about it, and calling all the way up to the highest supervisor just to get the same excuse. . . "uhm, well, it looks like a tower may need to be moved".  . . . to which we respond. . . "yeah, well, in the meantime, we are going to cancel this contract we have had for the past 18 years and divorce you all!  In the meantime, we are resorting to empty food cans with a piece of string attached to each one.  (Some of you won't get that.  It was before your time.)

While we decide on new cell phone service, we are going back to land lines. 
WE WILL HAVE A LAND LINE no later than Saturday, I am told by the local phone service.

In the meantime, when I get all cranky about what I don't have at my finger tips. . . for the mere sake of convenience. . . I mean who wants to go stand in the middle of the road at 12midnight to answer a cell phone?
And what neighbor wants to see me without makeup, in a long flannel granny gown trying to yell at the top of my lungs to discuss things that are not anyone else's business . . . in the middle of the road at midnight?  NO ONE!!!!

So, back to getting all Jiggy for instant gratification. . . I am reminded everytime I drop a call of the people in Joplin who will never hold their loved one again, who have lost everything and possibly will never regain a life. . . why do I really need to fret over a momentary lack of cell phone service?

The answer is. . . I DON'T!  I have constantly been reminded of the spoiled rotten 2-year olds we act like when we can't get on facebook, or pick up the celly to call a friend. . . WE NEED to GET BACK TO WHAT IS IMPORTANT!  NOTHING MATERIAL IS IMPORTANT. 

So, if you have read this, and you or someone you know lives in Joplin. . . I pray for them and for their healing. . .everytime I drop a call in my house. That means they get prayer at least 3 times a day if not more!

And, please forgive me for acting spoiled-rotten instead of being thankful we were not touched or damaged by those storms.