The Holy Autocorrect

The Holy Spirit acts as a sort of holy "autocorrector," and Lord knows that this is something we need!

Here's an actual phone text message:

Sender: This is Jesus this is my new number

Sender: Jessi

Recipient: I was shocked that Jesus felt I was a close enough friend to give me his number ...

Another actual text message:

Sender: Did you know there was a Brown window spider?

Sender: Window

Sender: Da[rn] window

Sender: Ugh window

Sender: [Expletive] window

Sender: [Undecipherable] window

Sender: Are you kidding me?

Sender: There is a brown spider that gets its name because it eats its husband ...

Both of these messages went awry because of the autocorrect feature in the users' cell phones, which, as these samples show, can sometimes yield laughable results. Many of us can provide examples of our own, if not from cell phone messages, then from our computer documents.

But unintended funny and even outright embarrassing messages aside, the main story about Autocorrect is how well it works most of the time. "It's not too much of an exaggeration to call Autocorrect the overlooked underwriter of our era...