Linguists have tapped “App” as the word of the year.
If you own a smart phone, you already know that “app” stands for “application.”
Sold as an add-ons for cell phones, apps serve as shortcuts to all kinds of things you never knew you needed. You can point your phone at the heavens and it will tell what star cluster you are viewing. You can have your phone listen to the radio and it will tell you what the name of the song is. You can take your blood pressure and upload it to your doctor. You can take a picture of a page of foreign-language text and it will translate it.
There are thousands of apps — and more on the way.
Indeed, we will have more toys and applications that we can ever imagine in the future. Stroll through the Computer Electronics Show in Vegas or browse through a tech magazine and your eyes will fill with wonder.
What we don’t have is an app for life.
In a relationship that needs mending, wouldn’t it be nice to download a fix? Instant agreement!
In a relationship that needs mending, wouldn’t it be nice to download a fix? Instant agreement!
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If the money is a little short this month, an app could repair that too. Cash in the wallet!
If the boss at work was unbearable, an app could make things better. The corner office is suddenly happy!
If your wife or husband is unreasonable, there should be an app for that too. Harmony at the snap of the fingers!
But the truth is that no tech-guru can touch the problems of our soul.
I wish I could offer a download to repair all of life’s problems. I would be rich and you would be happy. But the only application I can find is this principle, laid out many millenia before the ‘tech-age’: “Trust in the Lord with whole heart. Lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowlege him and he will make your paths straight.” Pr. 3.5-6
Download that! Care to comment?
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David, isn't Facebook supposed to become the "app" for life? ha haExcellent point. Kind of like all the books, seminars, videos, etc. over the years, on how to get rich quick, how to influence our bosses, how to get whatever we want out of life. Short of your closing remark, all of those attempts to fix life's problems have failed, yet as a society we continue to search for answers to that question elsewhere. No doubt the human race is persistent.
amen and amen.
Yes—kinda' like trying to take a pill for every affliction. Overweight? Take a pill.Easier to upload an app than read the bible, but the bible works, and apps won't. Great post!
You mean, there's not an app for that?
I only wish I had the know-how to create apps. There's gold in them there hills!
logically
You know, the Blackberry just doesn't have that many great apps. One of the reasons I keep using it instead of switching. Keeps me a little more restricted.
But now, if you should find a good app that would do my life for me, the right way, I'd sure consider an upgrade.Great post, David. As always.
Whenever I start to think that way I watch the movie Click with Adam Sandler. In the movie he owns a remote that controls much more than just electronics. It isn't long before his desire to manipulate things with the remote gets completely out of hand. It's a great lesson.
Woohoo! I'm totally downloading that app.
Happy New Year and God Bless You all.