From Canada-
“God, give me signal strength,” one Halifax daily said of a rather unusual church service held in that Nova Scotia city still reeling from power outages caused by Hurricane Earl’s Saturday visit.
It’s being called “the blessing of the gadgets.” Parishioners at St. Timothy’s Anglican church near here received grace Sunday for the laptops, BlackBerrys, GPS units, and iPhones they held up.
“Lord God, we thank you for the many gifts and tools you give us, all those electronic gadgets that make our lives easier in so many ways,” said Rev. Lisa Vaughn.
The unusual blessing of electronic gadgets Sunday came after Vaughn heard about the old English tradition called Plough Monday during which farmers bring their farm equipment to church to receive a blessing for a good harvest.
“Most of us live with our cellphones and laptops and BlackBerrys and all that kind of stuff. I mean, those are just daily tools for us,” said the wired pastor, who says she has three laptops and three desktop PC;s at home and is about to buy a smart phone.
More here-
http://blogs.marketwatch.com/canada/2010/09/06/blessed-are-the-blackberrys-grace-for-gadgets/
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