epicdialogue.com » texting http://epicdialogue.com/blog richard hamilton: youth worker. blogger. futurist. geek. father. sojourn. community organizer. Sun, 06 Nov 2011 01:59:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 The Spiritual Discipline of Twittering http://epicdialogue.com/blog/2009/03/03/the-spiritual-discipline-of-twitter/ http://epicdialogue.com/blog/2009/03/03/the-spiritual-discipline-of-twitter/#comments Wed, 04 Mar 2009 04:39:08 +0000 Richard Hamilton http://epicdialogue.com/blog/?p=386 Texting requires more attention than talking. Unless of course you are 8-14 years old; for the rest of us, it can be a consuming task. Thanks to the prolific twittering of @zaibatsu, @DannyTRS, @OneLuvGurl, @holycowcreative, and @espn (to name a few), my LG is experiencing a higher text volume these days.

This caused me to experiment with something recently. I began following @prayingpsalms. @prayingpsalms tweets a verse from a Psalm every hour. I’ve been following for a few weeks and here are my thoughts.

1-I like the regularity. I have started taking the time out to stop, read and pray every hour. I have always gotten a lot out of praying through the Bible. This is a consistent way for me experience this.

2-I enjoy the spiritual distraction. Let me explain. My days tend to get busy. A lot of things are vying for my attention. These tweets catch my attention and give me an excuse to take a break and do something kind of spiritual for a few seconds.

3-They can be redundant. I’m not sure if they recycle the Psalms or if they just tend to sounds alike, but there seems to be a lot of repetition.

4-This is only a small glimpse of what tech-spirituality could be.

Here’s my job for you. Let your brains go crazy. What does the future hold for spirituality?

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