THE FAMILY IN A TECH WORLD


Want to know something? Now we go to the internet. Does this mean that the internet knows all we need? Does it know as much as God? Does it mean that the internet knows better than our own family? This is going to be one of our biggest questions.

What does our family know that the internet doesn’t? That’s an even better question. Let’s see:

The internet doesn’t know me, my parents, brothers and sisters and all our other family members. So the internet knows lots about families in general but not my family specifically. Even as the internet collects all sorts of financial, educational, medical information about us - it still doesn’t know about us.

As Google digs deeper and deeper, sounds like we need to get clearer and clearer how we are special and unique - something Google can never know.

Google knows our illnesses but not our healthy attitudes.

Google knows our money but not our priorities.

Google knows our religion but not our beliefs.

Google knows our family stats but not our closeness.

Google knows our education but not our special talents.

Google knows all about our house but not our home.

Google knows our cars but not our energy conservation.

Google knows all our stuff but not our environmental interests.

Google knows our work but not our community contributions.

Google knows our taxes and donations but not our generosity.

While Google knows practically everything about everything, IT doesn’t know us and our family.

So, while we make good use of Google, we should not let Google distract us from what really makes our family:

Family attitudes, Priorities, Beliefs, Closeness, Talents, Home, Contributions, Interests, Generosity, Caring for Community and the Environment.

This is our FAMILY CHALLENGE.