Thy Constant Companion
I have vague recollections of family road trips where we had to navigate new places with these paper things called maps. Those induced rather stressful experiences as we tried to get places using only printed pieces of paper to figure out where to go. I remember one time my brother-in-law driving us around in New York on a family vacation cried out in exasperation, “Where’s the road?!” That at least got us all laughing. My point is that we are very blessed to have electronic maps and navigation systems that walk us step by step from one place to another. It makes moving around in a new place much easier, but of course we have to learn how to use the technology and follow the directions properly. They are different from the paper maps in many ways because they are constantly updated, they have far more detail, and they are so relevant that they can even alert us of traffic or police presence or other current conditions where we are driving. This electronic navigation is like the Holy G...