“I will praise God with my life.” – Psalms 146:2
Not only prayer or mitzvot — life itself can be an act of praise.
I think of this every Sunday when my iPhone tells me how much time I spent staring at its screen in the week prior.
Of course, I worry what our culture of distraction and technological addiction will do to our society and our brains. But as a religious person, I also wonder about the religious consequences of spending a significant portion of one’s day in the endless scroll or the management of one’s many WhatsApp chats.
This is not a way of life that praises God, that celebrates creation, that honors the precious and limited gift of time that has been allotted to each one of us.
So put down the screens. Not because you’re worried that you’re losing your attention span (you are) or that it’s making you more anxious (it is) but because you want this one precious life to be an act of praise.
