I would be lying if I told you I looked around at the world we are living in and said I felt good about it. In actuality, I look around and I am disgusted. I am bewildered. I am saddened. We have become a society that is attached to electronics, where a family goes out to dinner and they each maintain their own private conversation with their electronic god. They have no need to look up from what my husband calls the I-coma. They are engrossed. They are tied in. They are lost. Even in mass I see adults and children alike who cannot get through an hour of worship without having to check the status of their electronic pulse. In church? Yes. Sadly it seems society is raising a new generation who does not need God because they can go to Google to find all of their answers. Sad, but worse, true.

Then there is “Big Brother”. Everyone is watching. You cannot go anywhere without being tracked. I remember going to revivals in the Baptist church as a child and listening to Pat Harrington speak about the end of days. We were all going to be attached to a number, was it 666 or is it now your coordinates set by GPS? Is it your IP address? I don’t know, but I do believe God is sad. I feel He looks down and says look at what you have done with what I have given you. You have thrown it all away for things that cannot give you peace, things that are not enriching the lives of others and you have stopped coming to Me for your answers, choosing to search on your own time, on your own keyboard with your own set of rules.

Everything is full throttle. Everything and everyone is accepted. We map our routes, but no one seems concerned about their faith destination. We post to YouTube and record the world, but we aren’t concerned about the younger generations who watch our actions and think it is okay to follow suit by being attached to their devices 24/7. We are raising children who do not know how to communicate, who cannot sign their own name and who abbreviate everything including their own lives.

No matter how you phrase it, no matter how it is worded, we are living in a world of calamity, a world without boundaries and a world without God. Every day I am astounded by what is going on in the news—not just the ISIS threats, the killing of Americans on American soil by deranged gunmen, the stirring up of race wars, but by the lack of soul and kindness we have allowed into our lives through technology. Yes, technology, the new antichrist.

Maybe it is time we update our faith status.