February 11th

“Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your minds, so that you may discern what is the will of God — what is good and acceptable and perfect.” Romans 12:2

ah, dear friends,
let us not fill our hearts
with trending fears,
with that outrage crafted
so it fits our thumbs.
our lives, these God-lives,
are not to be measured
in likes or shares or emojis.
those filters offered to us:
smoothing the edges of injustice,
seeing cruel rhetoric as the
natural heirs to Shakespeare,
Neruda or Angelou,
the lies seducing us that
we are what we display—
only drag us deeper into
that pit of unknowingness.
so, let us step out of doom scrolling,
let God rewrite those codes
of rivalry and covetousness,
as God reboots our souls
with tender compassion.
may we shut down all those
glowing screens and sit
in the still silence of that
Light which shows us the way
to that life where we do not
become more inhuman,
but are renewed by grace.

© 2026 Thom M. Shuman

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