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Today I marveled over the technological contrasts in my daily life. As I hung up my laundry around 9 this morning in the frigid morning air, I enjoyed the blue sky laced with wispy clouds. Unlike the Japan seacoast, or even Seattle, winters here are generally bright \u00a0with fair weather dominating\u00a0rather than dark. I guess that’s one of the reasons I have a hard time justifying tossing the clothes in the dryer rather than hanging them up unless the wet laundry mountain is too big or I’m really, really tired or busy. The other reason is that sunlight makes things white. My washer only takes cold water (really cold in the winter!) and even adding bleach doesn’t seem to get out the grunge. But if I hang up my whites out in the light of that beautiful, glowing globe, little by little the grunge (and even stains) fade into oblivion. I like to imagine that as I soak in the love and life of God, little by little my grunge and grubbiness will fade away too, leaving me clean and fresh and fit to bring warmth or softness to another’s life.<\/p>\n

On the other end of the tech spectrum is my iPhone which allows me to do much more than I know how to do almost anywhere, anytime. Last night as I lay in my bedroom (temperature hovering around 34 F) I listened to the January 5th podcast of Daily Audio Bible in Japanese<\/a> (my New Year’s intention), checked my email, logged onto fb and saw a friend had responded to my random plea for a cage for our suddenly acquired hamster, and sent off a note to someone I haven’t seen in 30 years. What a strange and wonderful world of contrasts I live in.<\/p>\n

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