From the Pastor…
In one of the newsfeeds I subscribe to, there was an article written by someone who was dissatisfied with his IPhone X. In fact, he used the word “hate.”
Apparently, he couldn’t navigate the screen with one hand.
For folks who depend on their technology to get them through the day and handle the tasks on their plates, this inconvenience may loom a lot larger than for the rest of us who might be ready to break out our air violins or offer a derisive, “Are you serious?”
This critic will be returning to another current IPhone model for his smartphone needs, so may he find happiness there. His parting shot for the folks at Apple included surprise and disappointment that the designers hadn’t anticipated this hiccup in form and function.
Turns out they apparently hadn’t thought of everything.
For some of us who will never invent anything or risk even the most modest of failures, critique of advanced pieces of technology like smartphones or a host of other items we’d like for Christmas might seem misplaced and somehow uncalled for. For some of us who just consume and use without any thought for how these wondrous things were developed or actually work, such critique may sound a lot like whining.
And yet, customer feedback is in part how products are refined and improvements made.
At the recent congregational meeting, mention was made of Council needing feedback from members of St. Joseph’s on any number of issues and opportunities, including funding options for paving the parking lot, ideas for how to proceed with the possible move to one service on a Sunday morning and ways to address our Christian Education needs, as well as developing small groups and ongoing opportunities for fellowship and growth.
It would be crass to call this “customer feedback,” yet there is no getting around the feedback part. We need to hear from you. We need your thoughts and ideas and brainstorms. And prayers.
As we prepare for another Christmas celebration, may we give thought to how we can share and grow our faith, how we can more passionately and effectively proclaim the God we worship to be the God who has thought of everything, including a Son who was one of us.
Peace,
Pastor Jeff
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