Scheduling Problems

Never in the history of humankind have we had more devices, apps and calendars to help us manage our schedules. In this text, the disciples are very schedule conscious.

Love it or hate it, we live by our calendars.

There was a time when many of us carried them in our pockets, briefcases or purses. Paper calendars showed us when we had to be where.

Then came the digital revolution, and many of us traded in our leather-bound planners for PDAs, personal digital assistants. We learned a new way of writing the alphabet so that we could quickly add new appointments to our Palm Pilots using the stylus.

Then Steve Jobs and the people at Apple combined our PDAs, phones and MP3 players into smartphones. While we might have left our planners or PDAs at home on a Sunday morning, today most of us have our calendars with us even in worship.

Digital calendars can do things our paper calendars never could. They remind us of things we need to do based on our time and/or location. "Siri/Cortana/Alexa/Google, remind me when it is time to leave for my doctor's appointment." Then, based on your location and the traffic, your phone can tell you when it is time to leave.

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