Finding the Familiar

Booting up our computer is almost like coming home, it brings us normalcy, a routine, a life line in the sea of the unknown. It is comforting to see our grandson on the background and the familiar wall paper on our screen. We quickly check for emails from family and friends, hopefully one of our kids is on Instant Messenger. Then we listen to our favorite CD, currently Battleground and declare with Leonard Jones “let worship shake the earth!”. Isaiah 61:11 has become our prayer in every nation we enter, For as [surely as] the earth brings forth its shoots, and as a garden causes what is sown in it to spring forth, so [surely] the Lord God will cause rightness and justice and praise to spring forth before all the nations [through the self-fulfilling power of His word]. AMP

Tokyo



Today Gene and I ventured into the underground world, the subways of Tokyo, our destination, Akihabara Electric Town. We were obviously tourist as we stood in the midst of a hurried stream of people with confused looks on our face, struggling to purchase a ticket then find the correlating platform. We were quite relieved and somewhat elated when the automated voice in the car announced Akihabara. Stepping out of the subway station was an assault to our senses, towering neon-lit buildings filled with MP3 players, computers, infrared binoculars, cameras, recorders, entertainment systems….. Sales people on every street corner with megaphones competing for shoppers, loud music, people everywhere – the whole neighborhood was an electronic superstore. We felt extremely unrighteous being in such a materialistic atmosphere on a Sunday morning. The spirit of consumer lust was all over the place and yes I gave into temptation. We were wishing our geeky friends were there to advise us on what brand or model to buy.