Palm Pilots

It seems everywhere I go someone has one of those hand held, personal, electronic organizers. You know the ones, Palm Pilot is the most common brand as far as I can tell, so much so that it seems to have become almost a generic name for them.

I see people pull them out in meetings and use a little stick to enter their data. I'm woefully ignorant, I don't know if they are writing something on the screen or pushing tiny buttons or both.

Like cell phones, it seems that everyone "just has to have" one. Day timers, computing functions, contact lists and even Bible software on your organizers are quite common.

I understand some changes are underway so that your personal organizer will integrate internet access and your cell phone so that you can do all those things on one machine. Some have gone to very small organizers that you update from your computer and keep on your key chain.

I confess to being a bit of a dinosaur. I keep my day timer by hand on a big wall calendar. I would never be able to read the text on a key chain sized unit. Sometimes I can't even find my keys, I don't know how I could keep track of an organizer that small. I don't have a cell phone or a pager. It was only last year that I moved from a desktop computer to a notebook.

There's nothing inherently wrong with those things. I just remember that personal computers were going to make life easier, give us more free time and reduce paper consumption. In my opinion, they didn't deliver on any of those things, so I'm skeptical that other devices will make good on their claims. I still enjoy having a computer, but it doesn't make my life simpler, free up more time or reduce my paper consumption.

My palm pilot is old fashioned. If I need to remember something and don't have paper handy, I write it on my hand. Crude perhaps, but generally effective.

I'm not alone in doing it that way.

But Zion said, "The LORD has forsaken me, the Lord has forgotten me."

"Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne? Though she may forget, I will not forget you! See, I have engraved you on the palms of my hands; your walls are ever before me. Isaiah 49:14-16 NIV

God has inscribed our names on the palm of His hands, never to be forgotten, never to be forsaken. No matter what we face, even if we don't "feel" His presence, He is with us.

God's Palm Pilot never crashes. It never needs recharging. It never gets misplaced. It's always on and always set at the right function.

Until next time, when you see someone using one of those hand held organizers may you think of God's palms and rejoice that He loves you that much.

Be blessed

Hallelu Yah (Praise God)!

Kevin