Gabe Fluhrer

A quote from Richard Dawkins in his book, River Out of Eden.

He says this, Close quote.

If that's where you think about the world and that's where you live, is it any wonder that people have lost any kind of hope?

Isn't that a good term to describe what we see all around us?

Hopelessness.

Now, not just materialistic atheism, but think about also the way that we are endlessly amused.

Plenty of people want to work hard, but not so many people know how to rest well.

And not so many people know what to do with no distractions around them.

And it's a penetrating question to ask ourselves, do we ever have times of silence?

Do we ever have times where there's no background noise?

And if not, why not?

And oftentimes it's because we don't want to hear what God is doing and saying and meditating on in his word that he speaks to us in.

So we have endless amusement.

We have endless scrolling on social media.

And by the way, we all know that's the goal of it, right?

To keep us scrolling.

To keep us from ever being distracted.

thoughtfully engaged with anything.

I was talking with this about a friend recently about e-books versus hard, regular books.

And he said, where are you on that?