My grandfather and that new contraption… the telephone (standard:Inspirational stories, 910 words)
Author: Godspenman	Added: Oct 08 2011	Views/Reads: 3134/1725	Story vote: 0.00 (0 votes)
I was sitting in a restaurant on a Friday afternoon enjoying a leisurely repast with some friends. Somewhere in the middle of our conversation, my cell phone went off. Without even thinking about it, I reached into my shirt pocket, pulled it out and answe

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"Telephone." 

"Who's Phone, and what the world do you want to tell him?" 

"No," grandmother said and ran into the living room to answer the phone.
"It's the telephone ringing." 

By this time, she had got to the telephone and had answered it. 

My grandfather stared at her as she talked into the telephone receiver. 

"Woman," he said with a great deal of alarm, "what in the world is wrong
with you?" 

Grandmother ignored him and continued talking on the telephone. 

Now grandfather was worried. Watching his wife talk to someone who was
not there and even at times laughing when there wasn't anything funny, 
caused him alarm. 

Finally, out of sheer desperation, he went over, took the contraption
out of her hand and taking her by the arm and, "Now, dear. There's 
nothing to worry about. Just come over and sit down here in your chair 
and everything will be all right." 

"But I'm talking to..." 

"I know, I know. But you see, dear, there's nobody there. You're just
having one of your spells." 

Grandfather never came to terms with grandmother's newfangled
contraption. To my knowledge, he never used it, never spoke to anybody 
on it, never listened to anybody talking to him on it. As far as he was 
concerned, it was one of grandmother's hallucinations. 

It has been a long time since I thought about grandmother's telephone.
On my way home from my luncheon meeting I thought about all the 
inventions that have come into our world. I thought of what the Bible 
said, "Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but 
they have sought out many inventions" (Ecclesiastes 7:29 KJV). 

We seem to be quick on our inventions, but rather slow on connecting
with God. With all our inventions, are we any better off? Instead of 
seeking inventions, we would be better served in seeking God. 


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