Did you hear about the vicar who blessed laptops and mobile phones? Given that it happened last Sunday it’s probably old news now but I’m mentioning it today because of something some one said this afternoon.

I had the pleasure of meeting with the trustees of Give A Brick today. There are some lovely folks involved with the charity. Each has enough stories to keep me in blog posts for quite some time but we’ll save that for another day

Back to today, we had a great meeting. They loved hearing about Twitter and the positive feedback we’ve had since adding Paypal as a giving option. Better than that, within the hour we were done. Given my poor attention span, I’m not one for long meetings The chairman closed in prayer and as he’s talking to God, he asked God to bless the technology we’re using.

And that reminded me of what I read last week. The service was a 21st century revision of a centuries old tradition known as plow Sunday. Years ago they would ask God to bless the tools of their trade, namely ploughs and other farming implements.

Being that the church holding the service was in the centre of London, there isn’t much call today for farming tools on a daily basis. What are the tools of today’s trades? For many, the answer is computers and mobile phones, hence the revision.

I’ve been pondering this since last week. A large part of me was delighted that the church was moving with the times and striving to be relevant and accessible to a generation who largely see church as oppressive, boring and unnecessary. If I’m honest though, I also wondered if it might be a bit silly to ask God to bless an inanimate object.

For me, the jury’s still out so it’s over to you. What do you think?

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