The internet is a very useful thing, especially when it comes to sending gifts and cards for loved ones at different times of the year. For those who don’t like the idea of wandering around the shops looking for gifts, it’s all there at the click of a button. For those, who leave the gift shopping till last minute, the internet offers the chance for gifts and cards to still make it to the recipient’s address in time for the big day.
One of the most important reasons it is useful for days such as Mother’s Day is that it allows you to send exactly what you want to send. In our house we have discovered the advantage of websites like Moonpig.com or Funkypigeon.com when it comes to sending cards to my mother. In the whole scheme, she is ‘Nanna’ and Clare’s mother is ‘Grandma’. Trying to find a suitable card with the word ‘Nanna’ on the front is an unenviable task. ‘Grandma’ cards are plentiful in supply, but ‘Nanna’ cards seem to be as rare as a snow leopard. Internet to the rescue! By going on one of these websites not only can you put whatever words you want on the card, you can also upload whatever pictures you want too. In a few minutes, a card is created with two smiling grandchildren on the front accompanied by the words, “Happy Mother’s Day Nanna!”
I quite like the idea of having editing rights; they allow me to be creative and precise, they allow me to change things so that I can be happy with what I see. Why be happy for less when I can have what I want? I have editing rights in a lot of other areas too. I can change, add or remove things in many aspects of my life if I want to make it better, as the quote I recently read said, “your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change”. Being on a spiritual journey is to have editing rights. In 1998, the US Catholic Conference of Bishops said, “The Christian faith requires conversion; it changes who we are, what we do and how we think. The Gospel offers ‘good news’ and guidance not just for our spiritual lives, but for all the commitments and duties which make up our lives. Living our faith in the ordinary tasks of everyday life is an essential part of what it means to be holy today.” That’s what I want for my life and I want to do all that I can to make it happen.
“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the courage to change the things I can,
and the wisdom to know the difference”
Every blessing,
Major Adrian