While riding the bus to work one day, I looked at all the people on the bus. Most were paying attention only to some electronic device, a phone, an iPod or a kindle, for instance. It occurred to me that many of us get so into those devices that we almost entirely block out the rest of the world during our discretionary time. So, I pulled out my phone and wrote down this song…lost in MY own device!
May you feel and recognize God moving in your life, today and always!!!
JOHN
‘Lost In Our Own Devices’
So many of us walk around these days
Never looking at another human face
Earphones on and ipods in our hands
It seems to me that something has been lost
Are we ever gonna really know the cost
Of years not noticing our fellow man?
We’re lost in our own devices
Focused only on ourselves
Oh God, please help us all to understand
We’re missing something living in our shells
Lost in our own devices
Cell phones in our hand, talking all the time
It’s obvious it seems, yet so sublime
Do we really have that much to talk about?
Or have we become slaves to our own toys
Needing constant contact, ceaseless noise?
I believe beyond the shadow of a doubt
We’re lost in our own devices
Focused only on ourselves
Oh God, please help us all to understand
We’re missing something living in our shells
Lost in our own devices
Stop and look around, look me in the eye
It’s easy once you start, simple when you try
You might be amazed at who you see
Look and you might find, a friend for life
You could find a husband, meet a wife
You might find the person God wants you to be
We’re lost in our own devices
Focused only on ourselves
Oh God, please help us all to understand
We’re missing something living in our shells
Lost in our own devices
You might find the person God wants you to be
Take a look around you, it might really set you free
Of your own devices
Copyright November 21, 2011 John Lage, Jr. All rights reserved.
