Back To Home Page To Archives - Spring of Life - H. Roger Bothwell Computer Games If you are a guy and if you own a computer we can safely assume you spend a guilt-producing amount of time playing stupid mindless video games whose only redeeming feature might be increasing your reflex reaction time. The next time you have to slam on the car brakes or steer quickly left or right to avoid a massive pothole big enough to take out your suspension system you can look over at your wife and say, "See if I did not play Mega Monster Massive Asteroids we would have had an accident." I wonder how many of us could have learned a second language or have read the Harvard Classics if had used the time we spent playing Solitaire. It takes about a week for my students to catch on that I can see the screens of their laptops in the glass of the fake windows in my classroom. It's pretty hard for them to maintain they are taking notes when I can tell them to move the black queen over to the red king. So how did we waste time before computers? Surely we must have. Computers did not invent wasting time. They just facilitate it. Now I am not about to launch into a sermon on the stewardship of time making you feel any guiltier than you already do. We are great at producing self-guilt. We don't need help. But what I do want to say is how about taking just half that wasted time and spending it reading the Gospels or Paul's letters. Do I really have to tell you how much you will benefit? I'm Roger Bothwell and my address is roger.bothwell@verizon.net or 151 Old Farm Rd. Leominster, MA 01453. Thank you for your support of our faith ministry. Past devotionals can be accessed at Archives