It sounded like fun at the time. But soon, it was apparent that it was more than just a little past time. For those of you who may not be familiar with the game, “Angry Birds,” it is a free download onto your electronic device that can easily take over your life. Based on a rumor that a couple of ladies were seen playing it in our local library…I thought that it must be innocent enough…so…why not? J
Well, after downloading this particular game…this is how my life unfolded.
Day one…I finished level 1. Day two…I finished level 2. Day three, four, and five… I tried to complete level 3, and when I did, it was in the midst of a conversation with my husband. He did not get it when I threw my hands in the air and said, “YES!” because it was obviously inappropriate for the conversation we were having. I was stunned myself at the time, and in a move that I regret to this day, instead of pressing the arrow key to go to level 4, I accidentally pressed the “redo” button and found myself back in level 3!
After visiting with some young people this past weekend, the conversation wound its way to “Angry Birds.” They made mention that for people who might have tendencies towards “highly addictive” personalities…they could see where it could become a little obsessive.
Obsessive doesn’t even begin to cover it, and who in their right mind wouldn’t be addicted to something that takes you 10,000 sling shot type maneuvers repeated over and over to find that the three little pigs in which you are trying to make disappear upon the screen, only have a black eye or two? Highly addictive doesn’t even begin to explain how that game was devised to make one addicted. The young entrepreneurs with whom we’d been visiting also let it slip that once you get past the first ten levels, which by the way are all free, you then pay one dollar for each of the next levels of “Angry Birds!” They also shared that the developers are now billionaires! Apparently the country is made up of just a few billion of us who have tendencies towards “highly addictive” personalities.
I opened my devotional, “Jesus Calling” by Sarah Young, with a prayer as to how to end this column. I kid you not…these are the words I read...
“As you listen to birds calling to one another, hear also My love-call to you…You can find Me not only in beauty and birdcalls, but also in tragedy and faces filled with grief. I can take the deepest sorrow and weave it into a pattern for good. Search for Me and My messages as you go through this day.”
As we settle into these weeks and months ahead listening to the details surrounding other types of “Angry Birds” in this world who bring intentional tragedy into the lives of others…let us be forever mindful that He is ever present.
“Lo…I am with you always” (Matthew 28:20). Not sometimes…but always. Amen.
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Thank you for praying attention to this space of grace. Your thoughts are sacred and most welcome...God bless your day.