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In an age where technology captures the attention of our youth for an average of 7.5 hours daily, we face a vital choice: to let negativity influence us or to embrace positivity and inspiration. This piece encourages reflection on how we utilize technology and the messages we consume. It emphasizes the importance of integrating faith and mindfulness into our everyday lives, urging us not to conform to a culture that promotes immaturity. Instead, let’s focus on personal growth and maturity, guided by our faith and values.
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Good vs. Evil • When your mind is down it is absorbing the message. • Positive and inspiring • Violent and harmful • You must choose how you will use it
Take a Guess • The average 8-18 year old spends 7.5 hours a day using technology. If Your Kids Are Awake, They’re Probably Online By TAMAR LEWIN Published: January 20, 2010 New York Times
What do we say to the students? • So here's what I want you to do, God helping you: Take your everyday, ordinary life—your sleeping, eating, going-to-work, and walking-around life—and place it before God as an offering. Embracing what God does for you is the best thing you can do for him. Don't become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without even thinking. Instead, fix your attention on God. You'll be changed from the inside out. Readily recognize what he wants from you, and quickly respond to it. Unlike the culture around you, always dragging you down to its level of immaturity, God brings the best out of you, develops well-formed maturity in you. Romans 12:2 (The Message) • Common Sense
Can you be found? • Google your name • White pages • Web sites where you have accounts • Pictures of your family • Public record information