Modern Day Prayers
Loooking down, I held my phone in one hand, texting freakishly fast with my thumb, and signaled "one second, hush!" with my other hand. Mom. --textingtextingtexting-holdinguponesecondfinger-textingtextingtexting-shhhhhhhh-textingtextingtexting-justasec-textingtextingtexting-- Moooooooooooooom. --textingtextingtexting-holdinguponesecondfinger-textingtextingtexting-shhhhhhhh-textingtextingtexting-justasec-textingtextingtexting-hangon-textingtextingtexting-SHHHH-- MOM! I raised my head and met his eyes, "Child, just a second, I am PRAYING!" "You're praying? It looks like you're texting. Why don't you call them?" Instantly I flashed back to decades ago when my own mother would pick up the landline (do you young people even know what a landline is??? It's a phone, with a cord attached to it, and... oh never mind ), she'd hold up the "one second, hush" finger at me, bow her head, close her eyes and pray with whomever...