What?
This social media
thing.
Mine has been a love/hate relationship with it from the start in March
of 2008 when I published the first Oblate Offerings blog. [O.O. has been privatized
and is no longer visible to the public.] Then came FB, Twitter, and MeWe … platforms
that more often than not resemble political and religious war zones with disgruntled’s
on both sides of every issue banging away at each other with hostile words.
It
is easy to get sucked in.
It is easy to take sides.
It is easy to become part
of the problem.
I have to keep reminding myself that my way of acting should be
different from the world’s way; that the love of Christ must come before all
else. [Rule of Saint Benedict 4:20-21]
I remind myself that nowhere in the Gospel [or in the New
Testament] am I taught to aggressively attack everything that I see wrong in the world. What
I am taught is to live in a way that reflects the light and love of Christ in a
world that is dark, dismal, and doomed; a world that I have grown terribly weary
of.
There is a definite side of me that wants to pull the plug on these
socially connected devices, renounce the world altogether, and live in strict
seclusion. I have been in touch with this side of me for a long time now.
I, however, cannot. At least not strictly. At least not yet.
I
am yet constrained by the love of Christ to do what I can do to reflect
the light and love of Christ. Not just here in the climate of our little
hermitage; also in the climate of our small and needful parish, and here, too, in the climate where
you find these keystroked words.
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