Sometimes I scroll Facebook, Instagram, or X. I post a few likes and a comment or three. Occasionally, I share something that came to my mind. Often, I feel a little guilty for spending precious time that way. Is it a waste of time? People may say it is, but it is a conduit for interaction with others in the world out there beyond my screens. I think they are just as desperate for someone to notice they have taken the time to create a thing and launch it into another mind as I am.
Are the people who crusade against spending time “scrolling” not also using their own platforms for the exhortations? We bask in the reality that our lives are bigger than our bodies. It has always been that way, but our social media allow us to know in a concrete way that we make waves in the fabric of time and space.
Okay, I know words or pictures on a screen are not concrete, but the mind behind what so magically appears and the one that sees it and adds it to the stores within his or her brain are real. Transmission of information is the culmination of millions of hours of effort by people, human beings, whose identities we never know. Their effectiveness in changing our lives is not diminished by our not being in the space with them, working to make these wonders exist.
It is easy to believe in Jesus when we think about how we have the Holy Bible with us, even as we believe someone or something real created what we experience on screen. We, ourselves, know so little of how our being settles onto a screen in front of us and before someone in another space that we can compare it to prayer. We are here, and creativity, the Lord, and another soul almost seem as nebulous as molecules and atoms. We trust that “scientific facts” are true, though we may fail to understand their workings at all. Science and God are in definite ways connected; those who began to explore and relate the references society has built itself around believed in God and were not in opposition to His Being.
We exist within the mind of the LORD, and we also live in the throne room of Heaven. Should we then be more mindful in the conduct of our lives? I believe so. Is scrolling the World Wide Web a transgression? No more than other actions we take. As my parents often reminded me, “All things in moderation.” This is the information that imbues all parts of life with meaning. We, being consumed by any portion of life to the exclusion of others that hold as much or greater importance, are wasteful. On a level of pure being and meaning, we have work we must do. Work that changes lives, mine, and yours. Our purpose is Love for God and one another.
Um, I say writing is just talking on the page. As my audio conversations get carried away, because my brain is neurodivergent, so has this session of writing. Thank you for your participation in my creation. I hope you know that, as I can write, so can you. You have valuable thoughts to share. Please give yourself permission to say what your truth is on the page and share it with others who may need your voice to give them their own.
May the Lord Jesus Christ be with you always through His Spirit. I hope you experience peace and Love abundantly and receive multitudes of blessings. Returning you to your regularly scheduled programming. Do not forget you are Loved extravagantly and never alone.
© Jo Ann J. A. Jordan
Thursday, May 22, 2025
An Agent of Spiraling Chaos 