Can You Hear Me Now?
1 Samuel 3:1-10 Back when Tara was pregnant with Jonathan, she was traveling a lot to play her violin. Because she would be gone for extended periods of time, we bought a prepaid cell phone. Unfortunately for us, most of the places she traveled were in southern Ohio and West Virginia, where cell phone reception was spotty at best, ruining the whole purpose for having gotten that phone. Then we moved to New Knoxville, where our particular carrier didn’t have reception either. I got pretty annoyed at that guy who would go around on commercials asking, “Can you hear me now?” As hard as it is to believe in this 3G world, there are times and places where we don’t get cell phone reception. It’s really amazing not only how helpful these things are, but also how addicting they are and how upset we sometimes get when someone isn’t answering their cell phone. I remember when I was the associate pastor at Stonybrook UMC; pretty much weekly I would go back to the senior pastor’s office and we ...