I don’t know what a blog is, really. I think it is people posting their thoughts, theology and sometimes tragedies for others to read. I am not sure how often this devotional page will be changed but I hate ‘text here’ to come….so here goes. My thoughts as they are this 29th day of June, 2011.
I am learning to text on my phone, very slowly and I don’t know the ‘lingo’ but am trying to learn. A friend and I were texting back and forth recently and I texted her three letters, I thought everybody knew. I had used the few text lingo I knew…btw, TyVM, 4ever, tmi and that is about my extent. At the end of our conversation I put the letters PTL.
She texted back, what is PTL? I was shocked! Believe me when I tell you that I could not believe she didn’t know what PTL meant. The story does not end there.
I have a facebook account and was chatting with a young woman in our church and the exact same thing happened. She made a statement and I commented PTL. Her immediate message back…’what’s that?’ I thought right then, I need to educate this generation is what has been the text lingo before text was around.
Just in case you don’t know…PTL…Praise The Lord has been around longer than me and we need to know it, remember it and do it. Do you agree? This blogs serves are an educational tool for generation X and maybe Y and Z. But PTL….it’s a good way to begin and end a day.
Carol Henschel
