Driving while Intexticated

Today on the Morning show my heart cried out for a family who had just lost their little girl due to an accident that could have been prevented. I began to get angry to think that the person driving and responding to a text message was so selfish. This person couldn’t wait two minutes to pull over and respond. She had to respond right away. It was so important that she looked away for two seconds to type LOL and her life would change forever. Her life would be full of guilt and another life gone, while her mother and father deal with the loss of their 17 year old daughter. How selfish can we be? What is so important that we have to text one another while we are driving and risk killing someone. You might as well be driving while intoxicated. The morning show took five teens and adults on a driving test who all assured that they had mastered the art of texting while driving. They may have mastered the art of texting but failed while doing it driving a vehicle. Out of the 150 cones placed out in a driving course to simulate the side of the road and oncoming vehicles one girl ho thought she could do it the best hit the most, knocking over three quarters of the cones. Ten of them were simulating on coming traffic and seven pedestrians on the side of the road. It takes less that half a second traveling at 45mph to merge 10 feet from your course of travel. We don’t need to text that bad. I would think that God gave us better sense than that. I struggle just talking on the headset and driving. This brings me to another conclusion. Relationships, have our relationships gotten so impersonal that we can’t even talk on the phone to one another? Have we lost touch with Gods ways of fellowship? I’d rather hear someone’s and feel their emotions rather than read LOL. I want to hear them laugh, cry, call for a hug, or even just say hi. But we have driven ourselves into this fast pace world where everything is in a to-go bag. Families don’t even sit down at the dinner table anymore. Our dinning rooms have become our office or computer room. We wonder where our family values are at. Well we just past by them going 7 seven days in less than 24 hours.
People, slow down and. look at what God created. Take a time of solitude and try enjoying spending time with family at the dinner table, have conversation, and share what your day was like with one another. This texting is getting out of hand. I don’t condone texting, I think that it is a useful tool when used at the right time. But don’t let it consume your quality time with family. They are the only family you have. And parents be aware of where your kids are. Don’t text them to pick up milk at the grocery store when you know they are on the road driving. We have a responsibility to bring back the family values, and base them on Gods values.