Comments on: Lent Day 4… Put Down The Damn Cell Phone & Smell The Roses http://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-4-put-damn-cell-phone-smell-roses/ Mon, 28 Aug 2023 18:33:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Louise http://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-4-put-damn-cell-phone-smell-roses/#comment-168128 Louise Mon, 06 Mar 2017 04:56:41 +0000 http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=5890#comment-168128 Maybe if we put down something for 40 days, we’ll want less of it after that.

I resisted getting a cell phone at all for several years, but then was given a pointed hint at work that I should have one. Then the nature of my work required that I graduate to a smart phone. I was reluctant at first, but now …

I’ve been thinking about taking a vacation without the phone (which seems to be evolving into something between a muse and a ball and chain) and wondering what that would feel like and how it would change me. For the better.

]]> By: Kyle http://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-4-put-damn-cell-phone-smell-roses/#comment-168117 Kyle Sun, 05 Mar 2017 01:53:53 +0000 http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=5890#comment-168117 Great question and thought to wrestle with.
“A window into our soul…”
-Selah

]]> By: toddh http://www.northwestleader.com/2017/lent-day-4-put-damn-cell-phone-smell-roses/#comment-168115 toddh Sun, 05 Mar 2017 00:05:32 +0000 http://www.northwestleader.com/?p=5890#comment-168115 I wonder that same thing. Or, what’s the use giving something up if I’m just going to go back to it at the end of Lent? But I see it as a reminder of being human, limited, finite, and purposefully living with that in mind, even if just for a time.

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