PREFACE

Technology is a useful tool; but that’s all it is. It seems to me that we can get caught up in our own cleverness to the point where we neglect the value of the human soul. I hope you find the following paraphrase from the Gospel of Luke to be a gentle encouragement to treasure what is truly precious.

“Do not worry about your life, what you will eat; nor about the body; what you will put on. Life is more than food, and the body is more than clothing. Consider the ravens, for they neither sow nor reap, nor do they have cell phones. They have no bank accounts or portfolios, and God feeds them. Of how much more value are you than the birds?”

“And which of you by worrying can add one penny to his net worth? If you then are not able to do the least, why are you anxious for the rest? Consider the lilies of the field, for they neither execute a business plan nor go online, yet even the venture capitalists in all their glory are not arrayed as one of these. If then God so clothes the grass, which today is in the field and tomorrow is thrown into the oven, how much more will He care for you? And do not seek to get more and more stuff, nor have an anxious mind; for all of these things Wall Street seeks after; and your Father knows what things you need. But seek the Kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added to you.”