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Good Morning,
These days, there are lots of ways to keep track of how we鈥檙e feeling.
Phones and other mobile devices are loaded with apps that claim they can help diagnose common ailments, read our blood pressure and keep track of the calories we eat.聽
Even though I鈥檓 pretty sceptical when it comes to 鈥渆asy鈥� ways to stay healthy, I recently got a pedometer 鈥� that little device that ever so helpfully keeps track of the number of steps I we take.聽 I figured it might be nice to know how active I was on a day-to-day basis, and, who knows?聽 It might help motivate me to keep moving and keep those extra pounds at bay.
And I did really well at the start.聽 Between walking the dog and the stairs at work, I managed to keep those numbers up.聽聽聽聽聽聽聽聽
The problem is, by keeping track of every step, I was losing track of the joy I once felt being in the great outdoors, enjoying a spontaneous extra lap 鈥榬ound the park just because the flowers were blooming, or the leaves were turning.聽 And if I forgot to attach the little tracker to my belt, I might as well have not gone walking at all!聽 If a tree falls in the forest, and there鈥檚 no little cyber device to track the speed of its trajectory, how do you know it really hit the ground?
Some weeks ago, the step tracker came unclipped from my belt and fell down a sewer grating as I crossed the road.聽聽 I was really annoyed at first , but then, I got used to not counting every step 鈥� in other words, walking because I needed to get somewhere or for the sheer pleasure of it.聽 Socrates聽 said that an unexamined life is not worth living, but I鈥檓 guessing he never experienced the tyranny of a fitness tracker.

Lord God, help us to control the technology we鈥檝e created with the minds you鈥檝e given us, so we never lose sight of what you first created for us.聽 Amen.