As much as I do enjoy those things mobile and digital, I have lots of these moments where I’m challenged to not just see things for what I’d like them to be, but to see them for how they are. For example, at the time of this writing (probably a good week before publishing it), I’ve got about 8 or 9 tabs open to different websites, and all of them are challenging my views towards what is happening now – not necessarily what is possible.

For example, one of the site’s that I have open – Nex Gen Skeptic – has a ton of articles that simply refute many of the perceptions behind the term “digital natives.” The author has expounded for page upon page asking that people not just take what some louder folks say at face value, but to skillfully, and comprehensively study, the claims being made. In a lot of cases, the research isn’t well done, and then generalized in too wide a manner.

There’s this other website – The Journal of Online Education – that I got to off of the previous website. The statement that got me to go there was “From Digital Immigrants and Digital Natives to Digital Wisdom.” In reading just the summary/introductory paragraph, I was forced to look at my personal tech, and MMM, through a lens that maybe often lost in the bling, social, and waves of this technology. I don’t think that its an issue of mobile (digital) being narcissistic, but there is something of a lot of wisdom needed in order to make the changes that we oftentimes generalize too early before it happens.

I don’t know what this means other than I’ve just been pruned a bit. I like these extended reading sessions where I go find something new, and then what I read challenges and forces me to see the world in a wider screen than what I usually do. I think this kind of meditation is healthy. At the same time, I do know that its vital that my views do line up with reality, so that in leading others to a glimpse of what happens after the intersection of faith and tech, that I’m not putting them in a place where they stop there, instead of continuing to press towards Christ.