There's an App for That!

“What’s happening?!” Barry exclaimed as he walked into the bridge.

“Life support just went offline! I’m trying to figure it out!” yelled his wife, Alice.

“Where is Drew?!” Barry ran to the console and began looking through the secondary console while Alice worked at the main.

“Drew…?!”

“Yes! Wasn’t he in here with you?”

“Ummm...yes, he was fiddling with his data pad, making a new app.”

“Ugh! What were you doing when it went offline?!”

Alice retorted, “I just stirred the oxygen tanks and the alarms just started freaking out! Barry, it makes no sense. I’ve done it a million times!”

Barry shook his head, “Isn’t that always the luck…it’s always the oxygen tanks. Did you do anything differently?!”

“No! Nothing out of the ordinary!! I just...”

Drew walked in.

“Hey! Did someone say my name? Look! My new app works!! It simulates life support emergencies…isn’t it cool?”
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Wonder

I sometimes wonder while I sit. It seems like such a small pleasure, to wonder. To ponder such depths of emotions and to come back up for air after only a few gasping seconds. What dreams await the lonely in spirit and the lowly of heart? What nightmares might crash into the reaches of one’s soul? It seems so easy to blink away the tears of regret…so hard to stop the onrush of heartache one swears will never end. Sitting. Sitting on a chair, relaxing one’s mind so as to wonder aloud silently. Creating in oneself space just to let God know He is welcome to enter. Then letting one feel the onslaught of the Spirit wrestling away control and setting oneself free. Free to wonder, free to feel, free to sit.

Free indeed.