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Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed.

1 Corinthians 15:51-52 ESV
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Monday, July 5, 2010

a sign

This is my current cell phone...

It gets dropped at least 5 times a day.  It gets sat on.  It gets in the hands of little people.  It gets the occasional slobber bath.  And that is a good day.  It is also about 12 steps up from the green screen cell I had before moving here.  And it's actually not the first one I bought here.  The first one was a Chinese brand, cost more than this one and broke in less than a year.  While I was TL dealing with this and one of the worst possible times to be without a phone.  So I had to buy a new one immediately.  Got a great price with the only drawback being that I can't text Chinese characters, which can be quite handy here.  I can however text in Thai, a language in which I know two phrases.

Anyway.

I, like many people, would love to have an iphone.  Or maybe I am one of the few last remaining people to not own a smartphone of any kind. But I have played with those belonging to other people.  Looked longingly at them online.  And even purused Ebay for a good deal on a used one.  But after reading this (I know this is an ipad and not an iphone but the screens are the same), and seeing a few similar pictures on facebook and such I am wondering if God is trying to tell me something.  Are my wants outweighing my needs?  By a lot?  Not that it's wrong to want an iphone.  I just have a perfectly good, working and durable to my clumbsiness phone that, at the moment, doesn't need to be replaced.  So I will just be content in my red Nokia.

Although, if someone is looking to give their old iphone away, you got a taker right here.

2 comments:

Jason and Kathleen said...

but hey, i am sure your battery lasts three times as long as a smartphone!

The Parrish Family said...

If we figure out that we can't take our iPhones with us (still up in the air at the moment) then I will happily try to donate them to you!! :)