Our Daily Bread
How many times have you heard a telemarketer or salesman at your door say this "I just need a moment of your time..." They want to tell us the wonderful benefits of their product and service. We may discover something that we didn't know we needed!
God won't try to knock our door down with a "hard sell" like some sales folks. He will send his Holy Spirit to touch our hearts to remind us that he wants a relationship with us. Can't we make time for the Almighty God? The devotional suggests starting with five minutes in Bible study and prayer. Reading a devotional such as Our Daily Bread or The Upper Room is a good place to start. Some friends in the Episcopal church look up the prayers for the daily office and say some of them each day. I annoy friends when I suggest they consider giving up some TV to spend more time in prayer and Bible study! AND, I tell myself that I need to spend more time in prayer and Bible study than I do at the movie theater watching movies! Yes, I started with the man in the mirror! ha!
Lord, thank you for allowing us to have a personal relationship with you. You should be our priority so we can be the kind of person we need to be for others!
Technology Thursday
Apple released iOS7 yesterday. Woohooo! It is a major overhaul of the operating system used by hundreds of millions mobile devices. I was one of the fortunate ones that got through all the busy servers to download and install the new OS on my iPhone 5 and my iPad 3. Here are my observations so far.
Visual: The new version is stunning visually, different but the same. The icons are simpler and crisp on the retina display screen. I found the text to be a little hard to read on the icons, so I increased the size of the font in the Settings app. That seemed to work. I need to use a darker background so I can see the text easily. Not a big deal.
Updates galore: With the new OS came updates for most of my apps on both devices. Lots of updates! Did I mention lots? ha! Some take advantage of the new visual interface. Some do not.
Swipe up: I found it interesting that the swipe feature is thought revolutionary on the iPhone, but a pain in the patootey on the BlackBerry 10 devices! The swipe up from the bottom of the device running iOS7 displays a screen of common settings and features. Apple even built in a flashlight app!
iRadio: A new feature of iOS7 is iRadio. It is similar to Pandora or Songsta or Slacker, but it is integrated with iTunes. You can easily purchase a favorite song from iTunes after you hear it. Very cool. There are audio ads if you are not an iTunes Match customer.
Faster: I think the animations and loading are faster. Maybe it is my imagination.
Battery life: The backend processing is supposedly improved. I know I have seen a nice improvement in battery life so far. I will see how well it works after a few days of regular use.
If you have an iPad 2 or above, an iPhone 4 or above or a later model iPod Touch, I definitely recommend getting this update!
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May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit - Romans 15:13
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