Yesterday when Gary and I returned from our trip to the wildlife refuge there was a large package under our carport. It contained the 25lb. bag of sunflower seeds I ordered three days ago, when once again, I couldn’t buy any locally. Earlier in the week I received a case of my favorite tea…ordered because our local store has discontinued it.
This morning at 6am I paid our phone bill online.
A few minutes later I sent some photos to a friend in CA.
Later today I’ll complete my weekly column for the newspaper, attach it to an email, and send it to my editor.
Last week I completed my “new patient” paperwork by downloading it from my surgeon’s website.
My great aunt sent me a copy of her autobiography when I was a young adult. In it she described arriving in Oklahoma in a covered wagon and then living long enough to see a man walk on the moon. At the time I was stunned that so many changes had taken place in her lifetime. And yet…here I am, thinking about the changes that have taken place in mine.
I won’t enumerate a dozen or more changes that have affected my daily life. I won’t bore you with fond memories of things that I miss. I won’t predict what I think will change next…because I have no clue what someone is creating in a lab or garage or kitchen that will be the next innovation essential to our lives.
My thoughts this morning concern how changes accumulate and multiply and permeate our lives in such a way that we don’t notice them. Then one day we find ourselves living in a new world with new expectations and new consequences. I read a statement yesterday that many times the actions that have the greatest impact on society are the subtle ones that don’t get press coverage or national attention. I agree, and this morning I’m praying that most of those actions are good ones that benefit us…not destroy us.
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