From the current “Preaching Now” newsletter:

How To Know You’re a Contemporary Family
  1. You just tried to enter your password on the microwave.
  2. You have a list of 15 phone numbers to reach your family of three.
  3. You call your son’s beeper to let him know it’s time to eat. He e-mails you back from his bedroom, “What’s for dinner?”
  4. Your daughter sells Girl Scout Cookies via her website.
  5. You chat several times a day with a stranger from South Africa, but you haven’t spoken with your next door neighbor yet this year.
  6. You check the ingredients on a can of chicken noodle soup to see if it is low-carb.
  7. Your grandmother asks you to send her a JPEG file of your newborn so she can create a screen saver.
  8. You pull up in your own driveway and use your cell phone to see if anyone is home.
  9. Leaving the house without your cell phone, which you didn’t have the first 20 or 30 years of your life, is cause for panic and turning around to go get it.
  10. Cleaning up the dining room means getting the fast food bags out of the back seat of your car.
  11. Your reason for not staying in touch with family is that they do not have e-mail addresses.
  12. You consider second-day air delivery painfully slow.
  13. Your dining room table is now your flat filing cabinet.
  14. Your idea of being organized is multiple-coloured Post-it notes.
  15. You hear most of your jokes via e-mail instead of in person.
  16. You get an extra phone line so you can get phone calls.
  17. You get up in the morning and go online before getting your coffee.
  18. You wake up at 2 am to go to the bathroom and check your e-mail on your way back to bed.


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