Technology gets in the way.

I've been thinking a lot lately about how much technology has taken over our lives.
Sitting down listening to the preach at LIFE on Friday, I took a look round and saw some young girls glued to their phone. There was an awesome speech going on about stereotypes, and these girls did not take their eyes off their phones, and what's worse is they were blackberry messaging each other, whilst sat not even a meter apart. 

It got me thinking, firstly why on earth aren't you listening to an awesome preach?!, Secondly, why on earth couldn't they just lean over and whisper to each other what they wanted to say, or wait until the preach was over? Have we become so addicted to our phones and texting that we can't even have a conversation with anyone face to face anymore? That we're so afraid to say what's on our hearts that we just wait until we're away from that person on our phones or hiding behind a computer screen instant messaging people. 

It's so tempting to find our phones and text someone constantly, but I want to encourage people to have face on conversations, and put down our phones once in a while and take in what's going on around us. To have face on conversations with people, so words don't get twisted in the wrong way. After all we've been giving a tongue to talk, we might as well use it.