Dependence

Does it bother anybody how much our lives are now dependent on something that we can't see?  How we take for granted everyday that we will be able to live our lives intwined with this thing called the Internet? 

Unlike the old days, if that saw did not work you could fix it.  This morning our internet is moving at a snails pace and I feel helpless.  I can't see it and all I can do is tell our IT guy who comes back with an explanation that involves packets of data being stalled on the information superhighway.

Nobody can see it, few can describe it, we just know it makes us unhappy.  We all have work to do and we just can't get out a sharpener and fix the saw.

We are dependent on that we can't see.  Actually, as I think about it, this is similar to faith.  If you are a person of faith you also are dependent on something you can't see.  We take that unseen dependence for granted. 

I doubt I will ever be able to elevate my acceptance of the internet to the same level.