if only life was as simple as an iphone or macbook!
Recently I have made the change from PC to apple. I have been helped in this process by very generous friends, and recently received an ordination present of an iPhone which is pretty amazing.

In the early days I struggled with Apple technology and then found out this was due to me trying to make life too complicated. Apple works simply, my difficulties were due to treating the apple like a PC which tends not to be be simple and straight forward. I am finding more and more that Apple technology is quite straight-forward – if you want something to happen you just drag it, click it, move it!

In my Christian journey I can look back and see how I have made things complicated by not doing the obvious to achieve what I want to achieve or get where I wish to get. I have been conscious that there has been that desire to make things difficult which I probably think has it’s roots in the ‘no pain no gain’ mentality that is not uncommon to many of us.

The two computer systems of PC and Mac seem to originate from two different lifestyles: a PC of ‘this is life’, you need this and so be consumed; the Mac with ‘life is out there’, have fun with this, but there is more and so do it quickly and get on with other stuff.

My brand of Christianity is about having a life, not about being consumed with doing things. It is about fun not a set of systems and rules about how we should behave and what we can and cannot do. It is about creativity and following your path with the relational God with others others but not being compelled to believe or do the same as everyone else.

This is about discovering life.
I believe this is authentic discipleship.