大象传媒

Good morning,

We probably love it sometimes and we certainly hate it sometimes. It鈥檚 the internet, and today is a symbolic birthday. The Advanced Research Projects Agency was awarded a contract to build a precursor of today's world wide web back in 1969, and since then it has developed perhaps beyond most people鈥檚 imagination. And therein lies its greatest strength and its greatest weakness. The World Wide Web has enabled wonderful things to happen. We can communicate in ways never thought of, at speeds previously unimaginable.

And yet the so called dark web facilitates and gives access to the darkest and most corrupt elements of our characters and personalities. It can feed terror and subversion and crime in the most appalling manner. Maybe the defenders of the world wide web are right to say that technology is neutral and it鈥檚 the people who use the web who have the skills and ambition to create new and life giving things, as well as the ability to turn towards the dark side where corruption can breed. As in all our choices about the values that guide our lives, it鈥檚 up to us to turn to all that is good and wholesome to make the most of this remarkable invention.

God of unsearchable goodness

You create in us hearts that are capable of so much

Of love and compassion and creativity

And yet we have the freedom to turn towards the darkness.

May the light and power of your love draw us into a creativity

That today will bring fresh examples of our best selves

Amen