“Practicing the presence of God is a skill, a habit you can develop.  Just as musicians practice scales every day in order to play beautiful music with ease, you must force yourself to think about God at different times in your day.  You must train your mind to remember God.”
–Rick Warren

Whoa! The iPhone rocks. It rocked before, but it really rocks this morning. Why? Because now I can post to my www.singinthelight.com blog from my iPhone. Talk about convenient! But how does that affect all or any of you?

In my simplistic and perhaps naïve hope, maybe I will stop more often and write in my blog. Granted, it doesn’t come right to your mailbox like this email. Yet, I am excited about having at least a tool to make capturing thoughts more randomly. What? Pen and paper? Oh, I have a journal or two but taking the time to pull it out, carry it around. So much. I mean I’ll do good for a while, but then… I get lazy. Now… I always have my iPhone with me. When was the last time my journal left my nightstand?

Spending time with God isn’t about convenience. Or it shouldn’t be. But it often is. I’d spend time with God… if I didn’t have this meeting or deadline. I’d talk with so and so about their walk… but they live so far away… or gosh, I’d have to turn off the big game on TV. I’d capture this thought… but my journal is at home and I’m not.

I’m not saying this new app for the iPhone will draw me closer to God, but it is a tool. And somehow, I think God smiles on anything that enables us to slow down and focus on Him. Enables us to practice the presence.

“But I will hope continually, and will yet praise thee more and more.” —  Psalm 71:14, The King James Version

In His service,
Keith